Do you get instant satisfaction when helping others? Do you long to be a part of a bigger thing than yourself? Do you like challenges? Then you definitely love “open source“. Starting the early 2000s the “open source” movement has been constantly changing how the world turns around. If you’ve …

Nowadays, being really busy has become something worth bragging about or something you can’t escape. You will probably even blame your commitments for stealing your time. But is it truly impossible for you to make time for your “dream project”? Are you busy or is it avoidance? Really. Look at …

In part 2 of the series, we organized the server-side of our vcard demo application. Today, we will be dealing with the client side: We will be progressively enhancing our initial application to get vcard data without refreshing the page; We will be strictly diving our application into four tiers; …

Overview In the former post of our series, we started to refactor a simple vcard application, which initially was a total mess. In the first part, we defined a skeleton folder structure for our application; and we laid out the foundations of the BPC architecture. Where; Behavior/business logic (B) would …

Coming Soon to a Git Near You: o2.js is going through a major re-factoring. That’s why I haven’t committed to the github repository for a while. And I finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel : What’s New in o2.js v.0.24? Here are some highlights of what’s …

Quick Update: I put How to Refactor a Mess into an Organized Web Application article series on ice for a while, as I’m building a comprehensive list of JavaScript Programming Interview Questions (and their solutions). Yet Another Update: My life, as a whole, is in a “transitional” period: I will …

This page has been translated into Spanish language by Maria Ramos. »» Cómo Refactorizar un enredo en una Aplicación Web Organizada (Parte 1: la Arquitectura BPC). In the former post I said that we would be refactoring chaos into order. This article is the next in the series; and here …

Ever found yourself as the front-end coder of a fat-client project, where the project has the following characteristics: The project has been going on for over for serveral years, The JavaScript is spread all over the place (I mean “all” over the place; inline, inside php snippets, within templates… here, …

To make a library ready for production, you need to write unit tests that cover all the core functionalities of the library. Then you will need to establish a means to automatically run those unit tests in different target environments. Only when a library passes all unit tests in all …

This is my 42nd post . If you’re as geek as I am, that’s good for you that you know what excites me. Otherwise typing 42 into Google may be a revelation that will put your mind into order. 8 months ago, I started this blog with a bold claim …