Coder’s Eye

Without a doubt, my favorite Javascript library is Dojo Toolkit.

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Thanks, Jonathan Snook for creating such a useful (and gorgeous) set of printable reference sheets for the excellent Prototype library for Javascript.
I use Prototype to support almost all my Javascripting on the net, both at work and on personal projects. It is a great library, and this reference just makes it clear how clean […]

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I’ve been meaning to write a Javascript “best practices” style guide for some time. Bad Javascript is just so painful to read and so easy to find that it brings a bad flavor to the whole language. I might be exaggerating, but only a little.
The Dojo Javascript Programming Conventions just released recently makes […]

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I offer the code for my Invisible Castle site under a GPL license. However, it is not the easiest code in the world to get running. Plus, it is really overkill for most people. Most people who ask for the code really just want a die-roller with database lookup for their site.

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fvlogger.js is a fine logging system for Javascript, but when you are already using Prototype.js, it unnecessarily duplicates a lot of functionality. I’ve forked the original code to “fvlogger 1.0.proto”, removing this duplication.

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Recently, I’ve been something of a language evangelist at work. I’ve been promoting the power and utility of Python and Javascript to both coworkers and management. One thing I’ve found difficult to get across to them is the concept of "Closures", and why the lack of Closures in many mainstream languages (such as […]

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I just rolled my first real AJAX application out to a to testing.

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