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...