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Michael Mahemoff

Member since Sep 13, 2010

Recent Blog Comments By Michael Mahemoff

  • Javascript Patterns By Stoyan Stefanov

    Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM

    It's encouraging to see PubSub or similar is becoming a staple JS design pattern. "plan to throw one away" is one valid approach, but there's also the Extreme Programming idea that no-one ever really does throw things away, so just do a quick spike session to play around with ideas, but ... read more »

  • Geocoding A User's Location Using Javascript's GeoLocation API

    Posted on Oct 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    Nice tutorial and good job pointing out watchPosition() Ben. At first, I thought the obvious - that it was for the user moving around - but now I realise it has the potential to provide more precise info too. I had an unsuccessful experiment using GPS without 3G/wifi (perfect for international roami... read more »

  • Using Self-Executing Function Arguments To Override Core jQuery Methods

    Posted on Sep 13, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    Good idiom - it's nice how everything happens in "one line". A lot of the time, people won't make that "var oldHtmlMethod = $.fn.html;" a local variable either, ie. it will stick around in global scope, which is possibly undesirable, and something this idiom removes.... read more »

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