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newClass - a class like wrapper around prototypal OOP 24 Mar 2013 | 02:11 pm
I’ve done some JavaScript programming with both prototypal inheritance and the module pattern, both powerful concepts. What I didn’t like about prototypal inheritance is the loosely coupled...
Server down 6 Sep 2012 | 11:27 am
Just before I left for Brighton, to visit dConstruct, my server went down. The wesite is now served from an "backup server" which was last updated one year ago. So some articles are...
Beautify: Markdown, SmartyPants, GeSHi and Dot combined 26 Aug 2012 | 09:37 pm
Years ago, I wrote my own CMS, because nothing available would fit my needs. For text input, I initially used FCKeditor, a WYSIWYG-editor. It turned out to be very cumbersome to show source code in...
Multi-video chat written during Fronteers hackaton 20 May 2012 | 11:33 pm
Yesterday I participated in the Fronteers Hackaton in The Hague. To warm us up Vasilis van Gemert gave a presentation about CSS3-effects featuring some creatures with laser-eyes and Peter Nederlof...
Love is in the air js1k demo 25 Feb 2012 | 02:46 am
Currently the fourth js1k competition is open. It’s organized by Peter van der Zee and it’s besides a competition, also a showcase of what can be done with 1 kilobyte of JavaScript. Almost all...
Deferred and promise in jQuery 26 Jan 2012 | 10:19 am
Deferred and promise? What is this article about? Deferred and promise are part of jQuery since version 1.5 and they help in handling asynchronous functions like Ajax. Let’s do a step back in...
Are webdevelopers elitists? 10 Oct 2011 | 02:29 am
The last couple of days I was at the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. These were amazing days. The Last speaker of the conference was Christian Heilmann. He had a very nice...
How to use the jQuery queue function 13 Feb 2011 | 02:20 am
Last week I was at a meeting of the JavaScript user group Amsterdam.js and Michiel Kalkman talked about the sequencer he wrote. The idea is very good: it let’s you write loosely coupled software...
Combat spam with SPF 10 Dec 2010 | 10:11 am
You might think: “combatting spam is all good and nice, but what has it to do with webdevelopment?”. Well, many webdevelopers maintain internet domains and that’s exactly where SPF takes...
HTML5 Game Jam 18 Oct 2010 | 05:36 am
Last week I participated in the HTML5 Game Jam, an initiative of SPIL games and Google. The contest was held in both SPIL games in Hilversum, a ten minute bike ride from my house, and...
