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Category Archives: Web Development
Creating an API Service with YQL
I spent a few days last week in New York City at Yahoo’s Open Hack All-stars event. At this hack day, I was mentoring a team of 3 students from the University of Texas who set out to create a … Continue reading
Learning JavaScript
So you want to learn JavaScript huh? I can’t blame you, it’s a pretty rad programming language. Well lucky for you, it’s a really easy language to pick up and learn. You can get started with the language without spending … Continue reading
Installing npm on webOS 2.0
Now that webOS 2.0 ships with Node.js, one of the first things I tried to do when I got the webOS 2.0 SDK a while back was get npm installed. While successful, it took a little bit of work, so … Continue reading
Book Review: High Performance JavaScript
When I saw on NCZ’s blog that he was writing a new book on JavaScript performance techniques, I instantly went to pre-order it. Having partially read through High Performance JavaScript by now, I figured I’d start writing a review of … Continue reading
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Node-YQL
The more I play around with Node.js, the more I love server-side JavaScript. Once you get over the weirdness of writing JavaScript outside of the browser, it feels very natural. And the bonus is that it is blazing fast. Also, … Continue reading
jsFiddle: A JavaScript playground
Ajaxian had a story yesterday about a brand-new JavaScript playground called jsFiddle. A write and execute web-based JavaScript IDE is nothing new, but this is much, much more than that. The real power of jsFiddle is that you have the … Continue reading
Crockford on JavaScript
I just finished watching Part 1 of Douglas Crockford’s ongoing lecture series on JavaScript, and it’s fascinating stuff. A must watch for any programmer. Even if you don’t code in JS, it’s worth watching simply because this first part is … Continue reading
On: Programmable Twitter Clients
Loic Lemuer (CEO of Seesmic) recently announced at Microsoft’s Developer Conference that he’ll be releasing a new version of Seesmic that supports plugins. This is huge for developers, as well as users. Up until now the Twitter developer ecosystem has … Continue reading
PHP: A Better Random String Function
Often times you’ll come across the need to generate a random string. When you search for something like “PHP random string function” which will probably just be cut & pasted into your code, you’ll typically find something like this function: … Continue reading
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Dynamic function names in JavaScript
If you are doing some more advanced JavaScript applications, you’ll likely run into the problem at one point or another when you need to dynamically generate the name of a function you wish to call. This is the equivalent of … Continue reading