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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Code?

We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks like. What architectural decisions have the...

1 replies - 9996 views - 10/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

LLJS: Low-Level Javascript - A C-Like Typed Dialect of Javascript

LLJS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write...

0 replies - 4274 views - 10/12/12 by Hirvesh Munogee in Articles

Cage Match! Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile

Have you gotten the mandate from the higher-ups to write a cross-platform mobile app and you just don't have time to learn the skills for building native...

11 replies - 51418 views - 10/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Lines of Code is a Bad Metric, Either Way

The Dropbox team had a post explaining their decision to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript and, in particular, re-writing their existing codebase in...

0 replies - 2588 views - 10/11/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

How I Unit Test the Document Object Model

How I Unit Test in jQuery  I created a function that will add arbitrary html to the DOM and remove it immediately after my test has run. This is what...

0 replies - 2591 views - 10/10/12 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Two of My Favorite Javascript Design Patterns

The content of this article was originally written by David Morrow over at the New Relic blog. So you write JavaScript. That’s pretty much a given for...

0 replies - 5921 views - 10/10/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

The Pros and Cons of JavaScript and jQuery

This article was written by the Imaginovation team.  They are a Raleigh web design and software development company who uses .NET,...

7 replies - 13581 views - 10/10/12 by Michael Georgiou in Articles

TypeScript: Microsoft’s New Take on Javascript, from the Creator of C#

Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s...

3 replies - 7677 views - 10/02/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

A Simple TODO Application in Dart

Dart is a new language for building web applications. Though it’s still a technology preview, the Dart platform is already mature...

0 replies - 2176 views - 09/30/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles

Pushing Ajax Responses using Observer Pattern in JavaScript

Last week I'd played around with couple of design patterns in JavaScript (Constructor and Module pattern). I really liked the Module pattern i.e. the...

0 replies - 10053 views - 09/26/12 by Sagar H Ganatra in Articles

The Paste Wasteland (or, why the onPaste event is a mess)

When you work on the bleeding-edge, sometimes you’re going to get cut. The tech isn’t stable, things are buggy and may not conform to [a/the]...

0 replies - 3088 views - 09/24/12 by Joshua Gross in Articles

IRC Notification Bot with Node.js

This bot is a product of a simple need: notifying people when their friends log in to a particular channel:The need : Simple IRC bot, that would notify its...

0 replies - 2677 views - 09/24/12 by Hemanth Madhavarao in Articles

Back to Basics – Using Keyboard Events in JavaScript

A few months ago I was implementing a POC for a customer and was in a need for reading keyboard presses through JavaScript. I was asked the same question...

0 replies - 4325 views - 09/16/12 by Gil Fink in Articles

Resources from Jason Rudolph's "ClojureScript Experience Report"

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Triangle Clojure Users Group for my talk last night. It was great to see all the enthusiasm for ClojureScript. For...

0 replies - 4356 views - 09/09/12 by Jason Rudolph in Articles

Polyglot Programming on the Web

Whether you like it or not, the web platform has become the dominant client-side technology. This fact is so obvious that even...

1 replies - 7028 views - 08/28/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles