JavaScript Simple JavaScript profiling timer script. I had a need to write a small script that I could easily use to time bits of JavaScript code in order to profile it. Chrome's dev tools has lots of useful profiling
JavaScript Getting Too Modular Over the last year or so I've fallen in love with node and even JavaScript as a language (the good parts, of course). I was very pleased to find that the node community
JavaScript What are callbacks and promises? To explain promises we must first explain callbacks. A callback function is simply a function you pass into another function so that function can call it at a later time. This is commonly
JavaScript 9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know NOTE: This is a blog post from 2006 by a now 34 year old programmer named Ayman Hourieh. I found links to his site for an article I wanted to read but his
JavaScript String Replacement is Natively Supported by console.log() I recently found out that console.log() in JavaScript natively supports string replacement using %s as a placeholder and I wanted to share. console.log('My name is %s.', 'Alex'); // My name
JavaScript JavaScript Partial Application with bind() Sometimes the subtle ways other people use JavaScript puts a smile on my face. I'm getting started with the Mongoose driver for MongoDB; while I was reading the quick start guide I came
JavaScript Monkey Patching There are plenty of moments as a developer when you do something so clever that you just have to crack a little smile and be proud of yourself for a bit. When I'm
JavaScript I Finally Understand Closures! Since I started using Node I've fallen in love with JavaScript as a language. Before Node I liked JavaScript well enough, but without my trusty JQuery library it never impressed me much at
JavaScript How to Implement Auto-Save in your Web App Have you ever accidentally unfocused the textarea you were typing in and then hit backspace only to have the entire browser go back a page and blow away everything you were typing? Losing
JQuery Using custom jQuery events will save you a lot of headaches. If you use JQuery then you have likely already done events like this: $('button').click(function (e) { alert('hello!'); }); JQuery's event wrapper is very useful and it allows you to easily bind
JQuery Using Self-executing Functions to Preserve Dollar Sign compatibility in JQuery This is a very simple concept and is mostly common knowledge but I recently came across a need to use it fairly extensively and figured I would share. At my place of work
