Actor improvisation rules are a good approach to dealing with the unexpected in comedy or anything else. Error handling in JavaScript, for example. The way JavaScript deals with exceptions is already a little unpredictable. Instead of fighting that, let’s take advantage of it to create better user experiences, more powerful …
An overview of how to build a dynamic mobile application using the rendering features of jQuery Mobile. An end to end analysis of how to receive form meta data from a web service called through the jQuery ajax api. Store that data on the client in order to render it …
jQuery is rapidly becoming the most widely used JavaScript library for DOM manipulation, Ajax, events and effects in the world. For developers who work on the front-end but could use better JavaScript skills, it’s an essential piece of your toolkit that will almost certainly make your job more easy. In …
After giving a brief overview of JavaScript inheritance basics, this talk delves into advanced topics and answers questions such as the following ones: What is the difference between constructor inheritance and instance inheritance? What is the property `constructor` about? How does the `instanceof` operator really work? How does one reference …
Ember.js is a JS framework based on established conventions that allows writing complex applications with a small amount of code. Ember-data is the component that connects this framework with a REST API. Unfortunately, the conventions followed by its community are not compatible with Tastypie, one of the most widely used …
jQuery is so easy to use and thankfully abstracts many of the cross-browser concerns we used to labor over years ago. As with any library, however, there are a common set of bugs that tend to crop up as you start and continue to use it more and more. This …
