Sass cheat sheet (tagged: PDF sass css webdev system:filetype:pdf system:media:document ) Delegation vs Inheritance in JavaScript by Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript… (tagged: javascript interesting essay todo ) The Pros And Cons Of JavaScript Micro-Frameworks A good and even-handed overview of the subject and some of the practical considerations one must have when entertaining the […]
JavaScript is a wily beast: optional semi-colons and braces 1, sneaky performance hits, promiscuous equality operators and other dirty tricks… If you’re not careful, you could get yourself in trouble. Fortunately, there are tools out there to help. One of the recent additions to the JavaScript developer’s code quality toolkit is jshint. 2 Even more […]
Last night, I opened a pull request (my second) on the JSHint project. I created a wrapper for Apple’s JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine, which ships with (effectively) every Mac that’s out there. Why JavaScriptCore? That’s the obvious question, right? Why even bother creating a wrapper for JSC when JSHint is already out-of-the-box ready for Node.js, and ships with […]
Vermont In Speculative fiction at Geek Mountain State (tagged: scifi Vermont ) JavaScript Strict Mode Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript with (almost) everything you would want to know about ECMAScript 5's "strict mode". (tagged: javascript ecmascript strict_mode )
Shit My Students Write (tagged: writing blog humor education ) Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project (tagged: javascript Node.js mozilla ) Groovy 1.8 release notes (tagged: groovy ) Translating Dropbox at Dropbox tech blog (tagged: i18n dropbox translation )
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey via @JoelAnair (tagged: design software architecture programming coding essay robustness ) Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway via @donniecoleman (tagged: business essay inspiration ) You Owe Me An Apology Despite Never Having Met Me: Douglas Crockford, for JavaScript: The Good Parts A humorous bone-picking with/against Crockford's […]
“Can everyone stop writing JS micro-libraries for a second. I need to catch my breath.” 1 There are a few posts (on both sides of the fence) about this shit-storm 2 of “micro-frameworks” that seem to be getting announced every other day lately; and while I’m not sure if the following referenced post is the […]
Ready for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]
jQuery Testing with Jasmine (tagged: javascript video testing jQuery todo ) HTML Wiki W3C's HTML Wiki — like documentation, and arguably more readable than the specifications. (tagged: html5 web html documentation )
Jdrop – JSON in the cloud By the venerable Steve Souders. Anyone doing web development with mobile devices in mind should check this out. The premise is simple: real-world testing on real-world devices, then push your data to a cloud for retrieval and analysis on “saner” machines. (tagged: mobile performance javascript browser webdev Jdrop ) […]