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    JS Objects: Distractions

    In part 1 of this article series, I went into great detail (aka, wordiness) about the differences between what the traditional definition of "inheritance" means and how JS's [[Prototype]] mechanism works. We saw that JS operates oppositely to "inheritance", being better labeled as "behavior delegation". If you haven't read...

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    JS Objects: Inherited a Mess

    year 2013: Haskell people are still writing monad tutorials, JavaScript people are still trying to explain inheritance. — Vyacheslav Egorov (@mraleph) April 12, 2013 As sad a criticism on JS as that quote is, it's quite true. (I have no perspective on Haskell or Monads, so I'm...

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    Remove Plugin Stylesheets and Scripts in WordPress

    Many WordPress plugins implicitly inject stylesheets and JavaScript files into the page on each page load.  If you don't plan on custom-styling for elements created by the plugin, that's no problem...but you can get caught in a CSS specificity battle if you do intend custom styling.

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    Making the Firefox Logo from HTML

    When each new t-shirt means staving off laundry for yet another day, swag quickly becomes the most coveted perk at any tech company. Mozilla WebDev had pretty much everything going for it: brilliant people, interesting problems, awesome office. Everything except a t-shirt. That had to change. The basic...

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    curl.js: Incredible AMD Loader

    Today there are dozens of AMD JavaScript loaders available, the most popular being RequireJS. There are also lesser known JavaScript loaders like YepNope, $script.js, LABjs, and Dojo's new native loader. My favorite JavaScript loader, however, is John Hann (unscriptable)'s curl. While allowing...

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    JavaScript CDN Fallbacks

    CDNs are great for pulling shared resources from, especially JavaScript libraries. The advantage in the likelihood that a file is already cached before the user gets to our site is huge. The only problem with using a CDN is that it's out of control;...

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    Lazy Load Content and Widgets with MooTools and RequireJS

    The idea of lazy loading content is not new;  we've been lazy loading images (check out my MooTools LazyLoad plugin) for quite a while now.  And why wouldn't you lazy load content?  There are SEO advantages, load time advantages, bandwidth savings, and more, so including a bit of...

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    Create a Dojo Lightbox with dojox.image.Lightbox

    One of the reasons I love the Dojo Toolkit is that it seems to have everything.  No scouring for a plugin from this site and then another plugin from that site to build my application.  Buried within the expansive dojox namespace of Dojo is

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    Create a Dojo-Powered WordPress Website View

    Yesterday I showed you WordPress' awesome JSON plugin named JSON API.  Now that I can get my blog posts in JSON format, it's time to create an awesome AJAX'ed web app with that data.  I've chosen to use the power of Dojo and Dijit to...

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    Create a Dynamic Flickr Image Search with the Dojo Toolkit

    The Dojo Toolkit is a treasure chest of great JavaScript classes.  You can find basic JavaScript functionality classes for AJAX, node manipulation, animations, and the like within Dojo.  You can find elegant, functional UI widgets like DropDown Menus, tabbed interfaces, and form element replacements within...