Posts tagged with Javascript
Best. Autocomplete. Ever.
During a recent role-playing portion of our interview training session at Square, I was trying to come up with a caricature of an interviewing engineer attempting to impress my counterpart across the table. I ended up embellishing upon my starter…
Determining Whether Client-side MVC is for You
I've been meaning to write down my thoughts on Javascript MVC frameworks for a while now. Ever since we rebuilt the Square merchant website with Ember[1], we've added major new sections to the webapp and…
Consensus Over Proficiency, Blub be Damned
My post on why I enjoy Javascript was reposted yesterday, and fueled some discussion on Hacker News on whether Javascript was worthy of the praise I was dishing. In particular, I received a comment that I was just a "…
Why Javascript is a Joy
I'm probably a bit biased - being a front-end web developer for a few years will do that - but I really enjoy writing Javascript. I've recently retreated from pure coding the last few months, but…
Coffeescript: Joyful and Unreadable
I had an interesting chat with a visiting engineer today about Javascript app frameworks, specifically Backbone.js. Backbone is probably the most popular one out there right now, on account of having excellent documentation and being minimalistic and non-intrusive. They…
Javascript DOM blocking
Recently I've found myself repeating a pattern in my Javascripts that works, but I'm not exactly sure why. I've tried to rationalize how the underlying system might work, but it's kind of…
