A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The people over at forecast.io on how often they receive mails from people looking for their app in the App Store where it is not to be found:/p> You don’t get Forecast from the App Store: just go to http://forecast.io/ on your phone, and you’ll be given instructions on how to download it. It’s 2013, …
Continue reading “It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web.”
Remy Sharp on his stance to not include jQuery by default anymore: The point is that today we have features natively available, and I’m trying to consider my audience before dropping in jQuery by default Yet again one of the reasons why I teach my students bare/vanilla JS next to learning them to work with …
Update 2017: By now it’s clear that an equal amount of JS-bytes and JPG-bytes are not the same. The JS still needs to be evaluated and executed, which also comes as a cost. People often build beautiful sites with multiple easy-to-use JavaScript libraries. Then, when it comes to addressing frontend performance, suddenly those libraries are …
Early July 2012, I reported to Apple numerous vulnerabilities related to their App Store iOS app. Early March Apple finally issued a fix for it and turned on HTTPS for the App Store. I am really happy that my spare-time work pushed Apple to finally enabled HTTPS to protect users. This post discuss the vulnerabilities …
JSON.stringify() has more than one argument: value – the value one wants to convert to a string replacer – an array or a function to filter fields space – the number of spaces (or a string) to use for indentation var person = {“name”:”Jim Cowart”,”location”:{“city”:{“name”:”Chattanooga”,”population”:167674},”state”:{“name”:”Tennessee”,”abbreviation”:”TN”,”population”:6403000}},”company”:”appendTo”}; JSON.stringify(person, [“name”, “company”], 4); /* produces: “{ “name”: “Jim Cowart”, …
We come across a lot of great articles on creating, testing and maintaining large JavaScript applications. This page is a continously updated list of articles that help explain the syntax of JavaScript, how to organize your projects, how to test your code, and what’s on the horizon. Superhero.js → (via @thijsvandevelde)