Tim on September 16th, 2008

OK, so the title of this post might be a bit overstating.
But, if you work with Javascript and need to use dates/times, you should absolutely check out a JS library for formatted dates and times by Steven Levithan (who is obviously cool; his blog is titled “Flagrant Badassery”).
It’s a library that extends the stock Date […]

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Tim on July 23rd, 2008

One hugely important thing in coding is debugging. Unfortunately, a lot of Javascript debugging gets done via alert() calls. This gets awkward quickly, with the alerts affecting timing, and just being annoying if you have to dump large amounts of data out.
Firebug is a great development tool, and has a really handy logging interface that […]

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Tim on June 30th, 2008

I’ve been writing a lot of JS lately, and I wanted to take this opportunity to drop some knowledge right here.
Lots of languages have support for some type of for-each-looping. This is great for looping over associative arrays, and even regular arrays, since it’s a bit cleaner than the standard for-loop. Sadly, Javascript doesn’t totally […]

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