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Javascript Templating Languages
I have been looking at JavaScript templating libraries recently for a personal
project and I’d like to write about my thoughts here.
Up until now, I had only really needed to use JavaScript on the client side, in
the browser. While most libraries...
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Using jQuery deferreds with Backbone.js
Backbone.js is a neat little JavaScript model framework. It gives you nice way of making Models and allows you to fetch and save them to the server easily using a REST API. One of the nice things about Backbone is that for a while it has returned ...
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Phantom QUnit Test Runner
I have been using PhantomJS and
QUnit for a while now to run JavaScript automated
tests. I like QUnit because has a decent in-browser UI but also has a
nice extension API so you can create plugins and output in different
formats if you like.
Ho...
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My Love-Hate Relationship with JavaScript
I have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. Well, more hate and
less love but I find myself conflicted when I write it. JavaScript
simply makes it hard for me to write good code. As a little background,
the JavaScript I write is almost exclus...
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Shady Harvard Puzzle Facebook App Disassembled
Today I got an email from a friend on Facebook that suggested that I try
out this application called “Only 4% of harvard grads can solve this
riddle..”.
Being curious I took a look at it.
The app starts out innocently enough, posing a riddle that...
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Smipple embeddable snippets
Today I released a feature on Smipple that allows you to embed snippets in blog posts and web pages. It uses javascript's document.write() to embed the html into the webpage. It looks like the snippet below.
Enjoy!
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IE, JSON, and the script tag
My coworker recently introduced me to one of the most blatantly bad behaviors in web browser history. He introduced it thus:
Out[1]: simplejson.dumps({'foo': '<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>'})Out ...
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jQuery Multi-Pageslide
Earlier this week I came across the jQuery Pageslide plugin via
Ajaxian and was impressed with the design. I set
about using it to display help messages to the user for a site I am working on.
It worked well and all but I found that you can only ...
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Ok/Cancel buttons with jqModal
I recently quit using gwt and started using jQuery for a personal project of mine and I wanted to be able to show some modal dialog boxes using jQuery. As it turns out there is an easy to use plugin that does exactly this called jqModal. jqModal m...
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Javascript Interpreter
I wanted a convenient way to test out some javascript by running it in a
browser and being able to play with it via an interpreter like python has. As
it turns out the almighty Bob created a nice
interpreter for playing around with Mochikit
but I ...
