JAVASCRIPT STYLE : VARIABLES

November 6, 2015 Joshua Golub

Good code is not just functional, but also elegant. Elegant code must be:

Well-factored
Well-commented
Consistent in its style

In a series of posts, we'll discuss coding style for the JavaScript language. In this first post, we'll focus on style guidelines for variables.

jQuery: Write less, do more

October 30, 2015 Joshua Golub

jQuery is an absolute requirement for any browser-based application or site. Why write 100 lines of DOM manipulation code using the W3C API when you can do the same work in 3 lines of jQuery? Plus, there are hundreds if not thousands of jQuery-based plugins available, many either free or modestly priced. These plugins solve common problems so that you don't have to.

JavaScript Patterns

October 27, 2015 Joshua Golub

It is remarkably easy to get started programming in JavaScript. So easy, in fact, that one can quickly find yourself with a large body of functional but poorly designed code. This book introduces the programmer to design patterns - from basic to sophisticated - that helps introduce elegance and order to that body of code.