Published at: 03:02 pm - Sunday February 21 2010
A couple weeks back, I talked about HAML and why I’m not a fan of its approach. I promised in that article that I would be following up with some discussion of how I think UI templating should work. I intended to post earlier than this, but then I dove into a fun new coding [...]
Published at: 10:02 am - Wednesday February 10 2010
What I have to talk about here is not going to be earth shattering, but it is a technique that has proved useful in a few different sites and scenarios for me. In fact, I regularly get questions regarding advanced use cases for LABjs (a parallel JavaScript loader), and invariably it comes back to something [...]
Published at: 02:02 pm - Monday February 08 2010
There are lots of patterns for various styles of object-oriented JavaScript. They range from the simple few-liner patterns to the complex libraries with lots of syntax sugar. Also, this great book on OO JS by Nicholas Zakas is a must-read.
However, I have to admit that I am typically not a fan of most Object-Oriented JavaScript [...]
Published at: 01:02 pm - Thursday February 04 2010
Disclaimer
Before I begin, let me share my personal mantra: “everyone is entitled to their own (wrong) opinions.” This includes me. This post is purely opinion. It’s an editorial. It means nothing unless you care what my opinion is. If you’re easily offended, or if you just love HAML, or if you’re a closed minded bigot, [...]