Recently I took a look at making HTML5 programs that will work on Mac, Linux and Windows via Electron and needed a way to recurse a directory synchronously in Node.js. I ended up with the following code: The above function allows us to recursively get the contents of a directory. Read more…
Yesterday I really wanted to make a multi-lingual so I decided to make a game in which you have to go through all of the books of the Bible as fast as you can. I still need to do some work on the game to make it more user-friendly, but Read more…
I noticed that lately there has been interest in finding a panda in a large array of snowmen in this post. There was also this post where you have to find a cat amidst a great deal of owls. I started thinking about how I could make a similar game Read more…
I finally have the 1st pass of YourJS available to the public!!! What is YourJS? YourJS is a fully customizable JavaScript library which gives the developer more control than ever before. Who controls the codebase? Everyone does! All you have to do is sign up and you can start writing Read more…
Did you know that YouTube automatically generates thumbnail images for all videos? Each video gets the following four thumbnail images automatically generated: http://img.youtube.com/vi/{VIDEO_CODE}/default.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/{VIDEO_CODE}/1.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/{VIDEO_CODE}/2.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/{VIDEO_CODE}/3.jpg In addition to these thumbnail images, a larger still of the video is generated and stored in http://img.youtube.com/vi/{VIDEO_CODE}/0.jpg. Try Me! I wrote the following Read more…
If you have been using JavaScript for a little bit you probably already know how to determine a variable’s class constructor, but just in case you are overthinking it here is a hint: variable.constructor. 🙂 Of course, many times I like to make functions that will spit my results for Read more…
Two years ago I wrote a post about how to pass arguments by name in JavaScript. Recently I have started to ramp a new project call YourJS and found a need to be able to read the names of the parameters of the given function. The following getParamNames() function takes Read more…
Now Available in YourJS Yesterday I was working with Math.cos, Math.sin and Math.tan and was thinking it would be nice to have the equivalent functions which accept the values in degrees instead of radians. For that reason I wrote the following definitions for Math.cosd, Math.sind and Math.tand: After executing the Read more…
For a while many developers, including myself, suggested that Array.prototype.slice() be used to turn any array-like object into an array. Recently, I was alerted to a scenario in which this does not work as expected. Let’s take the following code for example: In most browsers, the above code would take Read more…
WARNING: Extending native prototypes is frowned upon by many JS engineers but can be helpful as long as the extensions are properly documented in the codebase. SCRIPTER’S DISCRETION IS ADVISED. 😆 Yesterday I added a post about String.prototype.before(...). As is explained within the post, this function can be used to Read more…