First, I want to start off by saying that there are plenty of JS libraries that provide the ability to add scripts to the page such as jQuery. The purpose of this article is to present an alternative function whose sole purpose is to add scripts (JSON-P or otherwise) to Read more…
A little bit ago in this article I talked about being able to convert XML to JSON(P). I finally got around to making a page which shows upcoming movie trailers and information. First, I have to admit that the data is coming from both Apple and YouTube. You can check Read more…
Most of us know the simple way to get the keys from an object in JavaScript (~61 bytes after minified): But how many of us knew that array assignment within the for-in loop would work? (~58 bytes after minified) To be honest I cant take the credit for this because Read more…
Today I was looking for a way to easily pull in RSS feed data from Apple Trailers onto my site via AJAX. At first I was thinking about using jQuery to do it but then I got thinking about how cool it would be to have a PHP script that Read more…
One thing I have been doing for quite a while is using equality to (==) undefined or null to check if something is equal to one of those two values. Unfortunately, if your JS code needs to pass a linter, this type of check is not acceptable. On the other Read more…
At first I thought this was an infinite loop bug issue. After that, I thought it was just simply a bug. Now, after a co-worker (Geoff) pointed me to the JavaScript specs, I see that Chrome implemented this correctly and others didn’t. In most browsers the following code would result Read more…
Often times in JS it is necessary to trace through someone else’s code (or your own š ) to determine the root of a problem. Many times I have found that knowing how a function was called in the first place can be very helpful. Since I use Chrome for Read more…
As many people know, JavaScript doesn’t really have classes but you can mimic some of their behavior with the prototypal setup available in JavaScript. Still, a lot of times it is just easier when you have a function that does most of the work for you. For that reason, I Read more…
Probably due to it being so late, I was looking for code to uncamelize (undo camel-casing) any string. I came across what claimed to be a solution in PHP but unfortunately did nothing but lowercased my string. Therefore I decided to write my own solution: Believe it or not, the Read more…
I have been working on something I am calling JS-Proofs (or jPaq Proofs). While working on the menu I was faced with the annoying issue of either not having whitespaces between my elements in the markup or removing them some other way. Since my favorite language is JS, I decided Read more…