Learning From 2011

It's time to summarize at least few mistakes or epic fails of the year, hoping the next one will try to follow a better direction. I won...

Coercion Performances

There are cases where JS coercion may be wanted/needed/necessary, at least logically speaking. A classic case is a list of primitives, e.g. ...

Please, Give Us Back __noSuchMethod__ !

For those who don't know what __noSuchMethod__ is here the quick summary: it was a bloody handy non-standard method able to provide a f...

Create a JS builder with node.js

A very good and common practice with JS projects bigger than 100 lines of code is to split code in different files. Benefits are clear: smal...

On JSON Comments

Another active exchange with @getify about JSON comments and here my take because tweets are cool but sometimes is hard to tell everything...

Array extras and Objects

When Array extras landed in JavaScript 1.6 I had, probably together with other developers, one of those HOORRAYYY moment ... What many lib...

About Felix's Style Guide

Style guides are good as long as these are meaningful and a bit " open minded " because if one style is recognized as anti pattern...

JSONH New schema Argument

The freaking fast and bandwidth saver JSONH Project has finally a new schema argument added at the end of every method in order to make ne...

On Complex Getters And Setters

A common use case for getters and setters is via scalar values rather than complex data. Well, this is just a programmer mind limit since da...

Differential Background Scrolling

A quick one about this technique quite common in Flash sites but rarely seen on Web. Have a look at the example first so you can understand...

Few JavaScript Patterns

Just to be clear and once again, JavaScript can emulate: classes public and public static methods or properties private and private static m...