December 2009
5 posts
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Hacking To Meet Deadlines
As a deadline approaches far faster than you can type, you’re required to write some quick-and-dirty code to fulfill those feature requests.
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, this is when there happens to be a flaw in your program’s structure. It’s an architectural problem: you did properly build the system to elegantly behave in an expected manner....
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MGFX in the MooTools Forge
Last week saw the release of the MooTools Forge. And that’s fantastic news for the MooTools community. If there was ever one thing MooTools lacked compared to jQuery, it was an easy way to find other MooTools code.
For people trying to find plugins, we wanted a simple interface with visual focus on what’s available. Going through lists of plugins whose names are not always that intuitive...
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Closures Break my For's
I love closures. They are an excellent tool any Javascript programmer should have in his tool set. They let you do fantastic things, and are the way things like the Module Pattern are possible. But they can also be tricky. I’ll show you a couple ways they’ve managed to fool me, so that you can be aware of them when you use them in your programs.
When Doing a Simple for Loop
for loops...
