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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
If you run a website but you’re not aware of Google’s free Webmaster Tools, you need to get in the loop! These tools allow you to analyze a number of important aspects of how your site is viewed/analyzed by Google’s search engine index.
Yet, with all the power and insight these tools give, it still [...]
Last week, I asserted that DOM-ready detection sucks because there’s a chicken-and-the-egg problem where some frameworks (like jQuery 1.3.2 and before) that do DOM-ready detection have trouble detecting the “event” if the framework is loaded dynamically after DOM-ready has already occurred.
I stand by that assertion, especially now that you’ve seen the launch of LABjs 1.0, [...]
