Archive for the ‘JavaScript’ Category

limit.js – Limit JavaScript events & calls. Quite a neat little script that helps you throttle an overabundance of events firing. This, to me, is one of those tools that can be abused really easy by overlooking some bad habits you may have fallen into. There are other times where you simply don’t need every [...]

Rainbow – Javascript Code Syntax Highlighting. I’ve seen the question asked time and time again: what’s a good syntax highlighter for my site? It’s not the most elegant project which is why I assume many are so very dated. The highlighter I used to use on Monday By Noon hasn’t been updated since I started [...]

Why Javascript is a Joy. If I were forced to choose one thing to explain what I’m most excited about in my job it would have to be JavaScript. It feels like the Wild West to a degree out here, and people are doing some amazing things with it. There is immense knowledge to be [...]

jQuery Plugin Development Boilerplate | Websanova. This is a nice bookmark to have on hand should you come up with an idea for a jQuery plugin. It’s important to respect the conventions of the library when extending it, so using this as your baseline would be a smart move.

CoffeeScript and Progress | Peter Lyons. This is a great, personal account of one programmer’s enjoyment of CoffeeScript. I must admit that I haven’t had the chance to fully delve into it on a full scale quite yet, but I’m truly itching to. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of it. There’s still [...]

Scriptular. Regular expressions are awesome. To date I’ve been using the immensely popular Rubular for quick regex testing but it’s awesome to see a JavaScript-specific implementation for us to use!

Going Simple with JavaScript – Snook.ca. I can’t begin to explain how ‘up my alley’ this post from Jonathan Snook was this morning. Over the past few weeks I’ve been researching (and posting what I’ve been reading) insofar as what I would consider bleeding edge JavaScript frameworks for more advanced app development. The whole time [...]

CreateJS | A suite of Javascript libraries and tools designed for working with HTML5. Quite an impressive group of libraries to check out here. CreateJS is “a suite of JavaScript libraries and tools designed for working with HTML5.” I like the modular nature of this collection, and hope to give it a deeper look soon. [...]

basket.js – a simple script loader that caches scripts with localStorage. Addy Osmani has done it again. I can’t help but see his name attached to something new and crazy every week it seems. This time he’s published a proof of concept called basket.js. The purpose of the implementation is quite simple: it’s a script [...]

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks « caines.ca/blog. The headline’s a bit link-baity, but I agree with most of the sentiment. I can’t help but to be inundated with all of the great things happening in the JavaScript world over the past year. It’s some of the most exciting stuff I’ve ever seen [...]