Recent Web Log Entries By Ben Nadel
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) AJAX Requests Between jQuery And Node.js
Posted: February 10, 2012 at 11:10 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
After reading the REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse , I'm all jazzed up about API design! This recent enthusiasm has afforded me the motivation to attack a number of new topics all at the same time. If I'm going to be experimenting with API design, why not try it on an Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Micro instance ? And if it's on EC2, ... read more »
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jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects
Posted: February 6, 2012 at 10:26 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Last week, I started to talk about chaining asynchronous Validation rules using jQuery Deferred objects . After writing up that post, I thought I might be able to factor-out the core idea into its own jQuery plugin - jQuery.whenSync(). Like the native jQuery.when() method, the jQuery.whenSync() method takes a variable-number of arguments; however... read more »
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ColdFusion Supports HTTP Verbs PUT And DELETE (As Well As GET And POST)
Posted: February 3, 2012 at 10:23 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: ColdFusion, Javascript / DHTML
Over the weekend, I read an excellent book on building RESTful web services - the REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse . In the book, Masse describes how the various HTTP methods (also known as Verbs) are intended to be used to create, access, update, delete, and augment data within a RESTful web service API. As far as HTTP verbs go, I'm extrem... read more »
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REST API Design Rulebook By Mark Masse
Posted: February 2, 2012 at 9:57 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Books
Over the weekend, I read The REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse . I absolutely loved this book! In a world where so many computer science questions are answered with, " It depends ," or, " there's no 'right' answer ," Masse comes through with a book that says, No, these are the rules - this is how you design a RESTful API. This book explores ... read more »
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Use A Return Statement When Invoking Callbacks, Especially In A Guard Statement
Posted: February 1, 2012 at 10:09 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
In a synchronous processing workflow, the Return statement tends to indicates the end of a given function's execution. In an asynchronous processing workflow, callbacks are more generally used to indicate the desired end of a given function's execution. That said, it is critical that a Return statement is also used in an asynchronous workflow in o... read more »
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Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment
Posted: January 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
A while back, I blogged about how client-side validation is changing the structure of server-side validation ; with the client creating user-friendly error messages, the server can finally streamline its validation and data processing using a light-weight, exceptions-based workflow. While I really like this evolutionary step in data handling, I r... read more »
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How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2
Posted: January 27, 2012 at 6:42 PM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
In the past, I've dabbled with Node.js (a server-side JavaScript runtime environment) on my local MacBook Pro. If you know JavaScript, it's not too hard to get something up and running on your local machine. Putting Node.js out into the wild, however, is whole other beast. Not only am I mediocre at managing web servers in general, I happen to kn... read more »
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Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS
Posted: January 26, 2012 at 10:25 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Yesterday, I tried to apply some deep thinking to how dependencies should be managed in a modular JavaScript application architecture that is using RequireJS . The conclusion that I came to was that RequireJS should manage and load "definitions" while your application should manage and load "instances." This makes sense since instantiation is the... read more »
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Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS
Posted: January 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
In my journey towards understanding modular JavaScript application architecture, I've been using a lot of RequireJS . The RequireJS framework facilitates the organization and then the subsequent loading of individual JavaScript classes . When it comes to defining classes, RequireJS provides us with two opportunities for dependency loading: manag... read more »
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Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application
Posted: January 23, 2012 at 11:03 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Last week, I looked at handling keyboard shortcuts in a modular JavaScript application architecture . In that initial exploration, I distributed the handling of keyboard shortcuts across two different modules: a Controller module and the View module that would ultimately be affected by the command. After I was done with the code, however, I was l... read more »
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Handling Keyboard Shortcuts Within Modular JavaScript Application Architecture
Posted: January 20, 2012 at 4:40 PM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Yesterday, when using Gmail, I started to think about keyboard shortcuts. Specifically, I started to think about how keyboard shortcuts get routed within a modular JavaScript application architecture. If I have a module that can respond to the keyboard - but, that module is not supposed to "know" about the document at large - how does it listen fo... read more »
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Using An br To Override document.write() Inside A DOM (Document Object Model) Sandbox
Posted: January 19, 2012 at 10:49 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Last week, I talked about loading GitHub Gist content after the DOM (Document Object Model) had loaded . This was a somewhat complex operation since the remote Gist Script tag uses document.write() in order to inject the Gist content into the calling document. If document.write() is called after the parent document has been "closed," the write() ... read more »
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A Book Apart: Responsive Web Design By Ethan Marcotte
Posted: January 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Books
Last weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . It was a compelling read that talked about the broader benefits of designing to the constraints of a mobile experience. At the end of his book, he suggested that Ethan Marcotte's book on Responsive Web Design would be a perfect compliment to the "mobile first" approach to web development. A... read more »
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Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions
Posted: January 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: Javascript / DHTML
Last night, I was listening to the Lately In JavaScript podcast . Among the many items discussed, one topic that was brought up was the emergence of the LET keyword in the next version of ECMAScript (the language on which JavaScript is based). LET allows for block-level variable binding; so, while the VAR keyword allows for function-level variabl... read more »
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Experimenting With GitHub Gist-Based Code Samples For My Blog
Posted: January 16, 2012 at 10:25 AM by Ben Nadel
Tags: ColdFusion, Javascript / DHTML
Last week, I started looking around for a new color-coding solution for my blog's syntax highlighting. For the past couple of years, I've been using my own home-grown algorithm; which worked well for ColdFusion but, quite poorly for everything else. After looking at some of the options out there, I settling on trying to integrate GitHub's Gist hos... read more »
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February 2012 Entries »
Previously Posted
Loading GitHub Gists After The Page Content Has Loaded - Posted Jan 13, 2012
Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources - Posted Jan 11, 2012
Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files - Posted Jan 10, 2012
Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line - Posted Jan 9, 2012
Creating A Fixed-Length Queue In JavaScript Using Arrays - Posted Jan 6, 2012
Disabling Auto-Correct And Auto-Capitalize Features On iPhone Inputs - Posted Jan 5, 2012
What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support - Posted Jan 4, 2012
A Book Apart: Mobile First By Luke Wroblewski - Posted Jan 3, 2012
Experimenting With A JavaScript Gateway To A Remote ColdFusion Persistence API - Posted Dec 30, 2011
How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation - Posted Dec 29, 2011
Preventing Links In Standalone iPhone Applications From Opening In Mobile Safari - Posted Dec 27, 2011
InVision - Front-End JavaScript Developer Positions - Posted Dec 23, 2011
Creating A JavaScript Shim For Array Unshift() Method - Posted Dec 22, 2011
For Pay: I Need A Few Hours Consulting On Modular JavaScript Application Architecture - Posted Dec 20, 2011
Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context - Posted Dec 19, 2011
EmailYak.cfc - A ColdFusion Wrapper For The Email Yak API - Posted Dec 14, 2011
Scalable And Modular Architecture For CSS (SMACSS) By Jon Snook - Posted Dec 12, 2011
Creating An Image Thumbnail Service Using Email Yak Attachments And ColdFusion - Posted Dec 9, 2011
Using Email Yak To Provide Bidirectional Email Communication In Your Web Applications - Posted Dec 7, 2011
A Book Apart: Designing For Emotion By Aarron Walter - Posted Dec 5, 2011
Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality - Posted Dec 1, 2011
Invoking A Native JavaScript Constructor Using Call() Or Apply() - Posted Nov 30, 2011
XML Posts Without A UTF-8 Encoding May Lead To 400 Bad Request Errors - Posted Nov 28, 2011
Using jQuery's Pipe() Method To Chain Asynchronous Validation Requests - Posted Nov 21, 2011
My First Look At The RequireJS Build Optimizer For Node.js - Posted Nov 17, 2011
Using jQuery As A Named Module In RequireJS - Posted Nov 16, 2011
Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion - Posted Nov 15, 2011
Writing A RequireJS Plugin To Load Remote jQuery Templates - Posted Nov 11, 2011
Using java.util.Collections To Shuffle A ColdFusion Query Column Corrupts Column Values - Posted Nov 8, 2011
Keeping Modules Decoupled Using Signals And Mediators - Posted Nov 4, 2011
Global Events vs. Entity-Bound Events In JavaScript Application Architecture - Posted Nov 2, 2011
jQuery Appends Multiple Elements Using Efficient Document Fragments - Posted Nov 1, 2011
Using jQuery's $.map() Method To Convert Data Into Detached DOM Node Buffers - Posted Nov 1, 2011
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die By John Izzo - Posted Oct 31, 2011
ColdFusion ORM: A Guide To Developing Applications Using ColdFusion ORM By John Whish - Posted Oct 31, 2011
Using the Text Plugin With RequireJS To Load Remote HTML Templates - Posted Oct 28, 2011
Using One Object Per Event Type With Publish And Subscribe (Pub/Sub) - Posted Oct 27, 2011
Using RequireJS For Asynchronous Script Loading And JavaScript Dependency Management - Posted Oct 26, 2011
jQuery Can Provide Queue-Based Promise Objects - Posted Oct 24, 2011
The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week Five - Posted Oct 19, 2011
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