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Have you ever wondered why so many people hate Microsoft? For instance, people are always talking badly about the workarounds that you have to do in order to make things work in Internet Explorer. For me, when first starting developing web pages, all I knew was IE, therefore I felt Read more…
Usually, when people first start dealing with user input, they have to parse information such as a person’s name. I know I have had to do this at some point in almost every language that I have programmed in. One of the best ways to go about parsing a full Read more…
As I was improving the next version of jPaq, I realized that another simple type checking function that I need is one that will indicate whether or not the specified argument is a primitive. believe it or not, the code to do this test is quite simple: In JavaScript, the Read more…
As I was thinking about the swap() function that jQuery uses internally, I thought some people may also find a backup() function and restore() function useful. For instance, you may get tired of worrying about using the var keyword inside of a function in order to prevent the variable from Read more…
When looking for examples of generator function definitions, one of the foremost that you will find is one for generating the fibonacci sequence. One of the great things about the upcoming version of JavaScript is the fact that it will allow generator functions to be defined. The following is the Read more…
One of the things that I have noticed about bitwise operations in JavaScript is that it can be convenient for smaller values, but doesn’t always work for larger values. The reason this is the case is because bitwise operators will only work fully for operands which can be fully expressed Read more…
Let’s say that we have a table of grades that students received during a school year. The columns are as follows: student_id quarter1 quarter2 quarter3 quarter4 If you had to display the highest grade that a student received for a quarter, how would you go about selecting the data? Your Read more…
Now Available in YourJS For those of you who don’t know too much about regular expressions or just want to be able to replace every occurrence of a substring with something else, perhaps this definition for the replaceAll() function of all instances of String object will prove beneficial: Yep, that’s Read more…
A few weeks ago, while analyzing some of the CSS code for jQuery, I noticed a call to the swap() function. After looking through the definition of the function and reading the reason for using it in the documentation, I realized that this function might be pretty useful for others. Read more…
One of the newer functions that was added as of the 5th edition of ECMA-262 is Date.now(). This function returns the number of milliseconds that have passed since January 1, 1970 at midnight GMT time (UTC). If you desire to write code that uses this newer function, in order to Read more…