The lazy programmer at work: _eoo and your Javascript Objects

I admit: I’m a lazy programmer. If there’s anything I can do to reduce code, I’m in. Above that: if there’s anything I can do to avoid mistakes and errors, I’m in too. In order to have less errors/mistakes whilst whipping up some Javascript Objects I’ve created a little trick: the use of the _eoo …

RE: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

Some guys out there really are on crack imo (ooh, it’s all a conspiracy) … it’s not because Digg stopped a user his/her posts from hitting the homepage (due to violating some stuff) that it proves they have an auto-bury algorithm. Think about it: stopping a user from hitting the hp, merely is setting a …

Accessing data saved in the class property of DOM-elements with jQuery

Use of this plugin is not recommended anymore. Use data-* attributes and $.fn.data instead. This was a possible solution, a long time ago. A few weeks ago former colleague Jurriaan wrote a PrototypeJS extension to accessing data stored within classes of HTML elements. Basically it comes down to assigning extra classes (classes such as gender_male …