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My Latest developerWorks Article is Live: ECMA-262, 5th Edition
ECMA-262, 5th Edition. The standard published under the dry title ECMA-262, 5th Edition hereafter referred to as ES5, is the latest version of the ECMAScript specification. ECMAScript is the standard upon which JavaScript—the single most important language on the web today—is built. Because the language also serves as the basis for Adobe ActionScript in addition…
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Check Out My IBM DeveloperWorks Article on Sandboxed Natives, Fusebox, and FuseJS
Summary: The concept of sandboxed natives, which are native JavaScript objects safely enhanced outside of the global namespace, has been circulating for several years. With Fusebox, we have a new, elegant approach to sandboxed natives—one that serves as the foundation for a new library, FuseJS. Read the rest: Sandboxed natives, Fusebox, and FuseJS.
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Another Front End Engineer Interviewing Question: Loop Alternatives
We’ve actually hired a couple of people recently, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to bust this one out any time soon. Instead, I’ll share it with you. This is another one that I feel works for a lot of different experience and knowledge levels. A good, junior developer should be able to…
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Interviewing With Me? Here’s an Easter Egg. I’ll ask you this JavaScript Question During the Interview.
We’re hiring in my group. Cool, right? So, I’m once again interviewing. Yay me. Since I’m no longer running a group I don’t have to worry about any of the administrative type things (“this is what the company is about,” “this is what we do,” etc.) That’s good as it just allows me to test…
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An Ant Task to Comment Out console.log Calls from JavaScript Files
As someone who started out doing JavaScript in the 1990s, I’ve been through the dark ages of debugging. Alerts, logging application data into DOM elements, etc. After having been through all that doom, I’m clearly a fan of console.log. I use it all the time. I bet you do too. It’s super useful. The one…
