Linkdump for July 8th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Decent post by Jim Coward (writing for the Tech.pro blog) covering callbacks, the observer pattern, messaging, promises, and finite state machines — all as approaches to dealing with your async JavaScript. It's a decent read and is a fairly comprehensive survey. There is some nit-picking that can be done here (e.g., using promises in the callback example without introducing them) but it's worth reading, even if you think you're familiar with these patterns.
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer. Generally speaking, if you have a sparse array like the ones in his examples, you have other problems. And/but: if that is the world you live in, then by all means have these in your toolkit.
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A blog post by David Walsh. I'd seen some of these techniques before, but it had been a while and I'd largely forgotten about them. (Side note: mostly because I can't think of too many reasons why you would want to do this…) I seem to recall some version (versions?) of IE being brought to its knees by direct manipulation of stylesheets — but I can't find my notes on that, so consider it apocryphal until I can produce the details.
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Handmade in Canada. With Canadian Sweat & Tears.
Everything on here should seem like a no-brainer, but considering how familiar every image on the right is… Well: this is now required reading. -
Outstanding post by Pamela Fox on the sorts of questions you should be asking yourself when going selecting libraries for your project. For what it's worth, I know that when choosing between a couple of competing libraries, a lot of the things I look for are the things on this list. How many open issues? How long have they been open? How quickly are issues closed and patches applied? Do they take pull requests? (Blindly? Or with some healthy curation?)
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