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Friday, June 26th, 2009
We could also call this article, “JavaScript Constructors Considered Harmful.”
I recall reading a post recently which describes factory methods as a best practice. I can’t tell you how thrilled this made me as I’ve been advocating this for years, even to the extreme view that the author used as an example: new Form().
In my [...]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Complex front-end web applications generally consist of many components which are initialized and configured at load time. What I’ve come to find out quite recently is that some browsers simply can’t handle too many things going on at once (eg: IE6 and lots of DOM operations).
As a small experiment, I decided to write a [...]
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I will be presenting Object Oriented JavaScript at AjaxWorld this year.
You can find the talk’s abstract below. I’m still working on the slides so if there is anything you would like me to touch on, I’m open to suggestions.
From the Sessions page:
JavaScript has taken a lot of heat over the last few years for [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
… or How to Write a Good JavaScript Book
It’s widely known that the vast majority of JavaScript books that exist are bad. Unfortunately, I have another one to add to the list: Learning Dojo by Peter Svensson.
I fought with myself over whether or not it is a good idea to post this review. I’m afraid [...]
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