Tag Archives: client-side

Capturing the mouse with jQuery

I’ve been working on a Javascript-driven Django application pretty much non-stop for the last week or so. I’ll leave my experiences with the Django framework for another post1. There’s more than twice as much Javascript code in this application than there is Python code, so I can’t really claim that I know Django yet, to [...]

Javascript arrays smell

Last night I was writing some Javascript for a Django1 application I’ve been working on. I was discussing some of Javascript’s quirks on IRC with someone else who was also scripting.
He wanted to know what happens when you add both values indexed by number, and values indexed by strings (e.g. expando properties – no, I’m [...]

The Power of Javascript

I came across this presentation on infoQ.com yesterday, about the power of Javascript. I’d never heard of Glenn Vanderburg before, but he does a good job keeping things interesting for the whole whopping 56 minutes
He mentions some interesting details about the history of the language that I hadn’t picked up from Douglas Crockford’s [...]