A personal recap of the Web Development Conference 2012, summarizing key talks on creativity, Git, web security, and developer tools.
A tutorial on setting up RequireJS for optimized JavaScript loading in a multi-page website, covering shim configuration and build strategies.
A guide to setting up a pre-commit Git hook to automatically lint JavaScript files with JSHint, ensuring code quality across a team.
Upcoming improvements to Dabblet, including JavaScript support, cross-browser compatibility, security enhancements, and Prism integration.
A tutorial on client-side image scaling using HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript, with a step-by-step code explanation.
Creating custom form helpers for Bootstrap in Spine.js using Eco templates and Underscore.js mixins to reduce verbose markup.
Introduction to RoboHornet, a community-driven browser benchmark focused on real-world web performance pain points like DOM and canvas.
Explains JavaScript Factory Pattern types: Simple Factory, Factory Method, and Abstract Factory, with examples and use cases.
An update to a JavaScript Decorator pattern article, addressing community feedback and refining examples with closures.
Explains JavaScript IIFEs (self-invoking functions), their syntax, benefits for avoiding global scope pollution, and use in the module pattern.
Explains the JavaScript Decorator design pattern for dynamically adding functionality to objects, with code examples.
Explains the Observer design pattern in JavaScript, covering its concepts, implementation, and use cases for decoupled event-driven systems.
Explains the Iterator design pattern in JavaScript, showing how to create and use iterator objects for consistent collection traversal.
An in-depth look at the JavaScript Singleton design pattern, covering its definition, common pitfalls, and practical use cases.
Developer open sources several past projects including Instant.fm, Fling, CMSploit, and WireSheep, encouraging others to release code.
Explains the Strategy design pattern in JavaScript with a practical game character movement example to create flexible, swappable algorithms.
A guide to implementing classic Gang of Four design patterns in JavaScript, with explanations and code examples.
Introducing Prism, a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter for code snippets with plugin support and semantic HTML.
A technical guide explaining how to make Twitter Bootstrap's tab components bookmarkable using JavaScript and URL hash fragments.
A tutorial on creating custom jQuery Deferred objects and Promises for handling asynchronous operations like animations and AJAX.
