Now we have tried this twice. The idea may be enticing, but we can all agree that I have nothing of interest to offer. Some time in the next few days this domain name will be shifting to a placeholder with Google ads and a little note that says that, for a paltry sum, you [...]
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What’s the Big Deal
The cross-fire is heavy and you’re caught in it. Is jQuery for novices? Is it a toy? Or is it a great, light-weight tool with simple implementation, a godsend to web designers and developers alike? Neither? A little of both? A recent, somewhat tongue-in-cheek article suggested that dojo is for web apps and jQuery is [...]
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At the beginning of this week I was wondering aloud about jQuery and MVC. Mid-week there was some buzz about jQuery Templates and their lead into MVC. Yesterday Peter Michaux published a new article about using MVC ideals when using Javascript for web apps. One reader commented that Google’s Closure was the answer for MVC, [...]
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For my various, larger PHP projects I have used frameworks, most of which have enforced MVC to some degree. Having come to PHP from Java I have been very comfortable in that environment. Frameworks get heavy quickly, though. In recent years I have done less of the big projects and am now down to being [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Static Code Analysis (linting)
There are plenty of ways to debug JavaScript. The first one you ever used was probably just running it in the browser and seeing if it failed. A step up from that is to open a console window and look for errors or warnings. Some IDEs have JS debugging and some even have JSLint available. [...]
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Two weeks since the reboot of jQ-Mag and I have to say that I’m enjoying it. Feedback has been sparse, however, and the traffic is nothing to brag about, so the utility of the exercise is only measurable in terms of personal growth. Thinking critically while reading posts, blogs, and tweets on jQuery is a [...]
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