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A Bit of Advice for the JavaScript Semicolon Haters 22 Jan 2013 | 10:10 pm
“If you’re gonna hate, hate with some consistency.” (source) Earlier today, one of my coworkers was contributing to a cool new JavaScript lib, and complained that while he loves contributing to open ...
Partial Application in JavaScript 25 Sep 2012 | 10:59 pm
Unless you've used another functional programming language such as ML or Haskell, concepts such as partial application and currying in JavaScript may be foreign to you. That being said, once you under...
Why grunt? Why not something else? 4 Aug 2012 | 03:46 am
Recently, Miller Medeiros wrote a blog post called Node.js, Ant, Grunt and other build tools where he outlined some of his concerns about JavaScript build tools, focusing specifically on grunt, the ta...
Fixing "Retina" Image Scaling with Gyazo 17 Jul 2012 | 04:00 am
You know the new Apple Retina MacBook Pro laptop? The one with the super-high resolution display? Well, I got one last week, and I spent all weekend updating my dotfiles to work with OS X 10.8 (Mounta...
Fixing "Retina" Image Scaling with Gyazo 17 Jul 2012 | 04:00 am
You know the new Apple Retina MacBook Pro laptop? The one with the super-high resolution display? Well, I got one last week, and I spent all weekend updating my dotfiles to work with OS X 10.8 (Mounta...
Multiple var statements in JavaScript, not superfluous 4 May 2012 | 01:50 pm
I’m not sure where or when it happened, but at some point the JavaScript community decided that multiple, individual var statements were superfluous, instead opting for a single, combined var statemen...
Multiple var statements in JavaScript, not superfluous 4 May 2012 | 09:50 am
I’m not sure where or when it happened, but at some point the JavaScript community decided that multiple, individual var statements were superfluous, instead opting for a single, combined var statemen...
News Flash: Semicolons Required in JavaScript 17 Apr 2012 | 07:29 am
These days, arguing over whether semicolons are optional in JavaScript seems to be all the rage. Many people say that semicolons are optional in JavaScript. But JavaScript will insert them for you if...
News Flash: Semicolons Required in JavaScript 17 Apr 2012 | 03:29 am
These days, arguing over whether semicolons are optional in JavaScript seems to be all the rage. Many people say that semicolons are optional in JavaScript. But JavaScript will insert them for you if...
Introducing Grunt 31 Mar 2012 | 03:58 am
For the last few months, I’ve been working hard on grunt, a task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects that facilitates creating new projects and makes performing repetitive but necess...
