Posts Tagged ‘ JavaScript ’

ES5 is finally here, JavaScript geeks rejoice!

So, earlier this week, it was announced that ECMAScript 5 has finally been released. This is a good thing and I caught the highlights on InfoQ. The full draft is a 252 page PDF  beast of a document which covers basically about everything there is to cover. The things which strike me as interesting are [ READ MORE ]

Data visualization on a web page

Quickie: Two of my favorite ways to get data visualized on a web page are the Google Chart API and flot, the amazing canvas-based plotting library built on top of jQuery. The Google Chart API provides a rediculously clever way to get high-quality information graphics which are generated on the back of the clearly-amazing Google infrastructure. [ READ MORE ]

Good talk about DSL construction in JS

Neat talk, should remind everyone about the joys of doing cool stuff in the browser. Plus, it made me think about DSLs in general which is good because of all the Scala goodness I’ve been messing around with recently. The talk is on InfoQ. [ READ MORE ]

Talks I am willing to give

The following are possible talks I am willing to give at a future SCOSUG meeting. Emacs concurrency (or lack thereof) XSLT for fun and profit Programming with distributed objects in Ruby Unit testing JavaScript That is all. [ READ MORE ]

The trouble with USE

Today, I was caught a little off-guard by a question regarding the USE directive in SQL. While, it stumped me, it did give me pause to think. First and foremost, it occurred to me that part of the reason that I was caught off-guard was because, in the past, I’ve been advised to stay away [ READ MORE ]

Compile JavaScript to Java classes with Rhino

Can you compile JavaScript to Java classes? Why, yes! Yes, you can! Rhino lets you do exactly that. Example here. [ READ MORE ]

JSLint: Oh, what a wonderful thing

Just discovered JSLint. It is very good, but it does hurt your feelings somewhat. I intend to use it heavily on my code from now on. Wish there was a stand-alone version, though. Still, it’s marvelous so use it often. [ READ MORE ]

Readability, it matters

Just got a tip from my dear friend and colleague, Red Beard the Pirate, who showed me the wonderful new world of Readability. The guys at Arc90 labs have a live demo and you can put your own readability button on your toolbar to instantly reformat any page for maximum readability. I am pretty blown [ READ MORE ]

My Ubiquity commands

I have written some Ruby scripts (using ERB + Rake to build and git to track+publish) to maintain my personal repository of Ubiquity commands. In addition to automagically generating pages for me, there is also a consolidated command feed which contains all of the commands I use personally. You can check out my commands at [ READ MORE ]

In defense of JavaScript

For all of the issues with maintainability and the often-derided inelegance of the DOM, JavaScript is actually a very interesting and language. In addition to basic datatypes, it has a multitude of features which one would expect these days and a few surprises. Those hoping for features like first-class functions, closures and dynamic typing will [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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