Category: Javascript
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Interesting Assignment Related to Rich Internet Controls
One or my recent projects was to work with a client to create a Silverlight control for reporting purposes that has some general flashiness, and is reusable across several sections of the site. It has brushed into some interesting areas. I have used Silverlight for some media and imaging applications before, but this was the […]
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Namespace, Encapsulation in JavaScript
I’ve had several discussion recently some of the more advanced features of JavaScript, such as functions as return values, namespaces, encapsulation, etc. In order to demonstrate some of these things, I contrived a simple example of a dependency injection tool. Never mind that dependency injection is not really a relevant pattern in JavaScript or other […]
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Integrating Internet Services on Your Site (Or Mini-Cloud Web Sites)
Something I’ve been increasingly fascinated with over the last year is the reuse of free internet services that I have. On my site, I have widgets that feed the last 4 posts from this wordpress blog, and my twitter feed. I also have an ajax live bing search box that will return results from my […]
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Arrays as Objects in Javascript
Rhino Prompt… js> a[0] = 1; js> a.print = function () {for(var e in this) print (“a[” + e + “] = ” + a[e]);}; function () { for (var e in this) { print(“a[” + e + “] = ” + a[e]); } } js> a.print(); a[0] = 1 a[print] = function () { […]
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Javascript Scoping
If you understand what’s going on when this runs, then you understand javascript scoping. var x = 5; alert(x); function foo(){alert(x);var x = 10;alert(x);} foo(); alert(x);