I’ve been hard at work on More Things Need To this weekend and have learned lots of things in the process. One of these things was a handy bit of Ruby that seemed worth sharing for other newcomers.
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There are numerous awesome new features introduced in HTML5 and CSS3, but neither specification is finalized and browser support for them is still pretty unreliable. After getting a taste of what these new technologies can do, it can be hard to resist using them and to wait for better browser support. My position for a long time has been that, although it’s frustrating as a developer, it’s best to create things for the lowest common denominator and not use features that don’t have reliable support across browsers. But my thoughts on the subject have been changing recently.
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No sooner than I wrote about how to control a JavaScript function’s context with the Prototype Function.bind(), jQuery 1.4 is released and one of its new tricks is $.proxy(), which we can use for exactly the same purpose.
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Keeping your JavaScript code organized and readable can be a bit of a task. Since I started with jQuery, most of the JavaScript for my applications has just been inside a giant $(function() { }) block, and as the code grows longer and more complex, it becomes much harder to find the thing you’re looking for and edit it later. I was searching for a design pattern that would help me organize my code in a way such that I wouldn’t dread looking at my JavaScript files in the future. My solution came in the form of namespacing and building modules with function prototypes.
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It’s been a while since I posted so I thought I’d do a general update. At the start of November I started a new position as a front end developer for Eventful, a site which maintains a listing of various local events. Of course this means that I’ve had much less time to work on JCWS projects, but it also means I’ve been gaining a truckload of valuable experience with things I haven’t done before.
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