A while back, I used Yahoo! Pipes to filter my private GitHub RSS feed, so that it only shows information that may be interesting for me to track. The resultant feed allows me to see what my friends have started watching or have forked, or repos they have recently created, from the comfort of my feed reader.
Following a small refactor—guided by some more Pipes-knowledgable friends of mine (cheers Carlo and Dirk)—I privatised my token, and allowed customisation of the GitHub account used.
So, without further ado, here’s the pipe; feel free to use it to stalk your friends on GitHub:
In my time as a web developer, I have been involved in the definition, implementation, and maintenance of several different coding standards, across various web-based languages. In my experience, this process is not as straightforward as it first seems, and can lead to a great deal of headaches if not handled in a very specific manner.
As the front-end development team where I currently work are going through a definition process, I have been reminded of a few things I’ve learnt over the course of my career. With that in mind, I thought I’d type up some of that knowledge in the hope that it might benefit other developers out there.
Continue reading “On Coding Standards”…Following on from part 1 of my follow-up to “Object-oriented JavaScript”, part 2 provides a technical update to some of the theories and examples.
Without further a-do, let’s jump in with the technical stuff:
Continue reading “Object-oriented JavaScript Follow Up Part 2: Technical”…Back in May, 2006, I wrote an article entitled Object Oriented JavaScript. It was an exercise in both writing a useful tutorial, and a brain-dump of various things I had learned about writing object-oriented code on the client side. It quickly became apparent—as the article was linked to from a multitude of my favourite web standards development sources—that the tutorial itself was helpful; the comments burgeoned, and the traffic rocketed.
When I read that article now, however, it bothers me. The tutorial is still good although the information within is somewhat dated; and my personal experience, knowledge, and general approach to writing JavaScript has changed quite drastically. The fact that the article still receives a consistently high number of unique visitors on a daily basis, when I no longer agree with all the content within it, bothers me even more. With that in mind, I have decided to write an update that looks at OOJS as I would currently use it.
The resulting post has become quite extensive, so I’ve decided to split it into two separate articles. This first one will cover some development theory, whilst the second will dive into JavaScript coding specifics.
Continue reading “Object-Oriented JavaScript Follow-Up Part 1: Method”…Following on from my post about my jQuery Carousel, here’s another widget: an accordion.
Until recently, I’ve usually used my friend and ex-colleague Marco’s jQuery accordion plug-in. However, whilst prototyping some stuff for work, I noticed a rather uncomfortable animation jump which, after some investigation, seems to be a well documented issue with jQuery’s slideDown() method. Since I was prototyping at the time, I quickly knocked up my own very basic accordion and, over time, it grew into something more.
The current version of my accordion follows a recent refactor–there are still several features I’d like to add–but for now I’m happy to let it out into the wild.
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