JavaScript

This might create quite some debugging headaches, especially in a larger application. Things don’t bind properly, have different data on the scope than you’d expect etc.. When you define your directives, you have to be really careful about their scope. This article is part of my “Learning NG” series, presenting some of my adventures while learning Angular. Check out the ...

If you haven’t worked with JavaScript in over a decade, you might be surprised at the advances that have been made in this language. At one time, JavaScript was used mainly for swapping “one image for another in response to user-generated mouse events” [1], and now, it is a full-fledged language used for both front end and back end work. ...

“Document ready” is a technique widely used by everyone who uses JavaScript or jQuery in their code, yet only a few people know exactly why it is used. Primarily, it is used to make sure that all your external scripts are loaded properly. Other reasons to use it are for having unobtrusive JavaScript and separation of concerns. Another perk is ...

This is a huge lifesaver and I don’t know how I couldn’t come up with this before. Check out this post to learn how you can enable spell checking when writing Markdown documents with sublime. Since I switched to Jekyll and GitHub Pages I’m writing all of my blogs posts in Markdown. Best thing I could do! Being a developer, ...

This is the first post of a series of 3, presenting AngularJS UI-Router library: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Components AngularJS UI-Router – Example         Introduction AngularJS is a well-known Javascript framework nowadays. It provides a great support to create SPA (Single Page Applications), easing some of the tedious stuff needed when writing client-side Javascript applications (boilerplate ...

By now everyone who has used a search engine has experienced auto-complete functionality at work. Originally intended to help those with physical limitations reduce the need for keyboard input, it has become commonplace on nearly every input element across a variety of software. In this article we will look at the details of the JQuery Autocomplete widget; how to implement ...

We hear a lot about loops, especially ” for loop “. So what, in fact, are they? They’re just pieces of code that repeat the same commands several times, until you reach a desired conclusion, without getting you bored out of your mind, repeating your code. This is how we JavaScript guys do it. Syntax You will definitely have to ...

Based on my original blog posting, this posting introduces a ported Javascript version of my rule engine, for Node.js. I have the requirement to use a rule engine. I want something light weight and fairly simple, yet powerful. While there are products out there which are super good, I don’t want something with the big learning overhead. And, I fancied ...

Angular data-binding seems magic, but obviously isn’t. You have to give it a chance to do its work. As such, watch out and think about the difference “copy by value” and “copy by reference”. This article is part of my “Learning NG” series, presenting some of my adventures while learning Angular. Check out the series intro and other articles. Note, ...