It's amazing that this decade is finishing off already. Time really does get faster the longer I feel it. Anyways, here's a summary of the activity on this blog for the year.
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. Sometimes, it's a problem from bad planning at the start. In other cases, it comes from scope creep, where features get slipped into a system that previously was not going to have such features.
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.
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.
I'm a web developer working in Orange County, CA. I specialize in web standards, modular javascript, and web applications.
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This book goes into useful detail about finer things in Javascript. Excellent intermediate level book for programmers. It goes into topics such as function invocation patterns, prototypal inheritance models and usage, and constructors.
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