A great new test through javascript.ru (an incredible resource, even if in Russian). Dmitry Soshnikov has created a new fun javascript quiz you can test your knowledge against. The difference is that he’s tried to abstract real world problems, collected from various mailing lists or problems of his own doing. Worth 10 mins for sure.
Around Christmas we tend to get a LOT of web traffic at work, so much so that we exceed our agreed bandwith a allocation with RackSpace and end up having to pay huge excess fees. Not wanting to be caught out for a second year in a row, I had a look at various ways of conserving bandwith and alleviating… Read more →
A nice blog post that samples 35 great fonts free to download, some are actually rather good. Head to Instant Shift to check them out.
Most web application/AJAX development takes place within the confines of either FireFox + Firebug or Webkit browsers and their consoles (firebug is now available on chrome?). However, other browsers (such as IE) lack console functionality and this presents a problem. When in a hurry / under pressure, I have been known to forget to take out a console reference out… Read more →
There are probably as many ways of looping an array in javascript as there are phrases that are synonymous for masturbation. So, what are they and how fast do they perform? Head over to this test @ a blog on Sun which sports no less than 17 different loops to get a fair indication of how fast things work in… Read more →
Being able to check if website adverts were blocked is of some importance. As browser plugins such as AdBlock Plus and the likes are getting better all the time, less and less of your adverts get served up. Hence, my simple solution that can try and recover some of the lost revenue. Google adwords code can be wrapped into a… Read more →
Just found this enjoyable collection of javascript statements that don’t make any sense, such as: “string” instanceof String; // false. [] == false; // true “” == false; // true null == false; // false, that’s more like it typeof null // object null === Object // false for these and more WTF moments in javascript, head over to wtfjs.com.
I needed to get retweet counts as data, as opposed embedding the standard widget that tweetmeme supply. Turning to their API instead got me joy initially. After a stressful few minutes with a javascript label exception was taking place, it transpired that the tweetmeme API was not returning valid JSON within i’s deignated callback wrapper. Instead, it came back as… Read more →
We’re shortly due to hire a new lamp/javascript developer at work and I just came across a very interesting post by Nicholas C. Zakas of Yahoo and O’Reilly fame. Although his requirements are probably a bit excessive (considering the enterprise level he’s at), I think there are some good ideas – definitely worth a read if you ever want to… Read more →
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