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.

Modernizing a Classic ASP application

October 29, 2015 Joshua Golub

We were recently tasked by one of our customers to propose and prototype a new technology stack for a complex application built using Classic ASP. The existing application uses an Oracle database and the JScript scripting language (essentially, JavaScript). Our research led us to the following proposed technology stack…