Javascript: you’re doing it wrong.
I’ve probably heard this a thouthand times already: “Javascript sucks! It has no classes, no inheritance, you have to fake all of it into the language…“. If you’re also a web developer you either think...
View ArticleJavascript: OOP for the uninitiaded
Hello again!! This post will be a continuation of a previous post: Javascript: you’re doing it wrong. (check it out if you haven’t yet!). In here I’ll talk about two different approaches to Object...
View ArticleThe anatomy of a jQuery plugin: a case study
Back to the bloging world after a while, I’ll start by writing about jQuery plugins, a subject that even though is pretty straight forward, I think not many people dare to tackle. I’m not a particular...
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Javascript: Dealing with “callback-soup” without an external library
Whether you’re working on the browser or on the server side, you might’ve run into what I like to call: Callback Soup. This happens when you start queuing one callback after the other. This is very...
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Review – Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook
A few weeks ago, I was asked by the PackT publisher to review one of their recent books: “Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook”. Here is what I think of it: The book “Google Maps JavaScript API...
View ArticleNode.js::Getting around Github’s Raw resources limitations
It’s a very common scenario: you finally find the file you’re looking for to start using on your website (be it a jquery plugin, an angular directive, or whatever you can include on your website) on...
View ArticleCreating a simple REST API with Vatican.js
A couple of weeks ago, I released to the inter-world my take at what a microframework for creating API’s should look like. I called it Vatican.js. I got some interesting responses, but mostly, because...
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