The WHY of WAT
Recently a talk given by Gary Bernhardt at CodeMash has been doing the rounds. In it, he pokes fun at some apparently crazy behaviours in Ruby and Javascript.
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JavaScript is Hard Part 2: The Hidden World of Hoisting
If you are interviewing prospective JavaScript developers and you feel like being a little bit mean then you could do worse than ask this question:
Read moreTesting Asynchronous JavaScript with Jasmine
For many applications, when you call a method the effect is immediate. For example calling a method like showErrorMessage("Error") will instantly update the page to give feedbac...
Read moreScaling JavaScript
When your JavaScript codebase consists of a couple of functions to do image rollover and form validation, then javascript seems like an extremely easy language. It has relative...
Read moreJavaScript is Hard Part 1: You Can't Trust Arrays
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don'...
Read moreTaming the App-Cache
HTML5 App-Cache can be a boon for developers of Web Applications, provided you understand how it's meant to be used, and provided you stick to the happy path. Before we look at ...
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