One of the nice things about JavaScript is its functional nature. This is especially nice when it comes to dealing with strings and regular expressions. For instance, in JavaScript, you can use the following code to capitalize every other letter in a string: Cool stuff, right? Wouldn’t it be nice Read more…
Here is a little snippet that you may find useful if you ever have to randomize the contents of an array: Here is an example of how to use it with an array: The above example will show the names that are in the names array in random order. If Read more…
In VBScript, there is a space function which takes an integer and returns a string with the specified number of spaces. At times, you may need such a function to make you text look neat while working with a monospace font. Here is the code that you could use to Read more…
As a follow-up to my previous article about the AND (&&) and OR (||) logical operators, I decided to create to Array prototype functions that mimic these operators to a certain degree: Here are two examples of using a series of AND (&&) operators and then doing the same thing Read more…
It seems that one of the top complaints about the Array.prototype.forEach() function is the fact that there is no easy way to break out of the loop. If you are one of those people that would like to see an implementation, here you go: Calling this function would be similar Read more…
As I was writing jPaq v2.0, one of the things I wanted in quite a few cases were functions in which the this object could be parameterized without using the theFunction.apply() function or the theFunction.call(). Here is an example of what is often done with native prototypal functions: Even though, Read more…
At times, I have had to add commas to numbers in order to make them look better in different applications. Even though there isn’t a native way to do this in JavaScript, the code can be quite short, sweet and to the point: The downside of the above function is Read more…
While testing out jPaq v2.0 in IE6 on GoToChrisWest.com, I found an IE6 bug (go figure). The issue can be illustrated with the following code: The above code should display one thing in the alert box: toString. Unfortunately, when you run the above code in IE6, nothing is displayed to Read more…
Most people that have written JavaScript realize that the and operator is && and the or operator is ||. Did you know, though, that these operators are short-circuit operators? Did you know that these operators don’t make the expression evaluate to a boolean per se? Short-Circuit Operators When someone says Read more…
I apologize for not writing any posts in the past few weeks, but I promise I was working hard on something big. Besides the normal work at work and my friend’s wedding, I have also been hard at work on the next version of jPaq. I still have more coding Read more…