A few weeks ago, I came across a question about finding the cartesian product of two or more arrays in JavaScript. For anybody who is looking to do so, I posted the following code on stackoverflow: function cartesianProductOf() { return Read more…
A few weeks ago, I wrote an example page on jPaq.org for using the curry function to easily add prototypal functions to the String object. As I was playing around with jPaq, I thought of a few more examples: // Read more…
Learn how to get currency inside of a mail merge without extra spaces between the dollar sign and the number.
I personally love both JavaScript and Python. For this reason, from time to time I like to port functions that are available in Python, over to JavaScript. The following is a port of the expandTabs function. String.prototype.expandTabs = function(tabSize) { Read more…
One of the functions that didn’t make the cut for jPaq is String.prototype.toCharCodes(). The reason is I don’t feel that it is a function that many people are looking for. Still, if you are looking for a good implementation for Read more…
There are a lot of people out there that no how to do file searches and Microsoft Word searches by using wildcard characters, but not as many people know how to work with regular expressions. That is the main reason Read more…
I recently encountered two troubling bugs with jPaq’s String.prototype.indexOfPattern() function. In order to fix it, I ended up exploring the powerful String.prototype.replace() function, exploiting the parameter passed into the callback function. I already knew that the matched text and sub-groups Read more…
Up until today, I was interested in writing a more object oriented version of the native window.open() function. Unfortunately, I found out that there are some major incompatibility issues between browsers. Let’s take this example for instance: window.open("http://google.com/", "", "left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,height=400"); Read more…