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…
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. 😆 Even though its NOT encouraged to extend native prototypes, at times you may find that doing so is pretty Read more…
Today, I had to figure out a way to parse an HTML string in Python in order to find all of the attribute values of attributes starting with a specific string. Since we already have BeautifulSoup installed, I started researching how to use a lambda function in conjunction with the Read more…
One of the great things about reading through Douglas Crockford’s site is that you get to learn about how certain things like prototypal inheritance was implemented prior to ECMAScript 5. Since then Object.create() made its way into JavaScript and has been available in most modern browsers for a while. If Read more…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I was recently working on a quick way to parse CSVs into an array of arrays and alternatively into an array of dictionaries keyed on the values in the first row. I ended up landing on the following definition: As you can see the Read more…
Here are a few helper functions that can help you get on the right track to building a simple chrome app that can read and modify the user’s file system: Get Full Path In order to get the full path for a DirectoryEntry or a FileEntry you can use the Read more…
Now Available in YourJS One of the cool things about JS is that you can do almost anything with it! The only thing is that you need to have the tools to get that “anything” job done. Recently, I had the desire to embed HTML, CSS, and JS all in Read more…
Last year I wrote about having heredoc like strings available in JavaScript. Today I figured i’d briefly bring the topic back, providing a solution for returning an array of all comments found in a function: Why is this useful? As you may know, writing multiline strings in JavaScript isn’t always Read more…
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…
When analyzing data in Excel at times it is necessary to pull data from another data source based on more than one column. In this case you can use the MATCH function in an array formula. Just so you understand the general idea of an array, it is a collection Read more…