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Angular.js presents a remarkable number of interesting design choices in its code-base. Two particularly interesting cases are the way in which scopes work, and how …

Recently, a tip on Coderwall, about how to organize your TODO list, brought about a discussion on Hacker News. In this brief post, I’d like to provide my take on …

I decided to take a gulp of Gulp and use it in one of my latest projects, to help me with releases. I wrote a Gulpfile, which lets me write some code to define the tasks …

A recollection of common-sense application design practices I usually follow when building things.

Gulp is a recently spawned streaming build system which shows a lot of promise. It brings a really terse code-base to the table, which you can actually walk through in …

A week ago I wrote about a few goals I’ve set for myself in 2014. In particular, I alluded to writing code that’s more modular than what I’ve been writing so far:

It’s been almost a year since I launched this blog, although I had started writing blog posts before I finished coding the web application, as a way to …

Persist standard input to a file and keep track of timestamps, then simulate real-time program execution.

This blog post contains useful information if you’re interested in the latest developments on ECMAScript 6 Harmony modules and they current state of their …

This blog post is part rant, part learning experience, and part solutions and conclusions I’ve arrived at, while struggling with WebDriver implementations in Node.

Inspired by the now-outdated post 10 Cool Things You Probably Didn’t Realize npm Could Do from Isaacs, the creator of npm, I set out to give you a few more tips on how to take advantage of this ridiculously well executed package manager.

A large number of JavaScript interview questions, if not most of them, can be answered with an understanding of scoping, how this works, and hoisting.

How scoping works is part of the latest chapter for my upcoming book on JavaScript Application Design. Here’s an explainer!

A couple of weeks ago, my book on JavaScript Application Design and front-end processes (which I began writing a few months ago) finally went into the first review …

Creating client-side JavaScript packages is increasingly becoming a painful endeavor. Here’s a potential fix.

An introduction to function Array methods.

I’ve been meaning to compile a list of tips and tricks to improve you Grunt workflows, so here it is!

Building on the blocks laid out in my previous article, I open-sourced a WYSIWYG editing library which doesn’t provide an UI. You can find the source code here.

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The event emitter pattern was popularized by Node, and is made available in the browser by libraries such as EventEmitter2. In practice, I haven’t seen a lot of …

What if I told you… we can write a tabbed UI view without using JavaScript, which works in every modern browser, and even clocks around 20 total lines of code?

In …

If you are using Grunt, you really have no excuse not to be using CSS spritesheets. If you aren’t using Grunt yet, then you should know that a well thought-out …

It took me a while to realize it, but Windows has been a disease to me, or perhaps more analogously a drug addiction. Ever since I was a kid I used Windows. Well, I …

An open letter to the CoffeeScript community.

You can follow the discussion on Hacker News.

This rant probably also holds true for TypeScript, and similar. Heck, even …

With Grunt, the JavaScript task runner, it’s becoming increasingly easy to tackle continuous development. The goal is being able to work uninterruptedly in our …

I’ve been toying with AWS for a few days now, and I wanted to share my experience and my approach with you. My goal was to set up a deploy flow in Grunt to enable …

For the past few months I’ve been sailing around the world of Angular. Today I can hardly imagine myself doing day to day coding on a large front-end web …

I just finished reading The Lean Startup, an immersive, ground-breaking take on entrepreneurship and startup management, with views heavily rooted in the Toyota …

Recently, I’ve updated the documentation for assetify, and grunt-assetify. I wanted to share the usage patterns as well as my reasons for developing, and …

I’m not sure anyone needs convincing that Node.js is freaking awesome, little has been said otherwise. Many of the people reading this blog are already …

I’ve spent a few articles talking about build processes; now I want to spend a few words on application architecture, particularly in Node.JS web applications …

We’ve looked at doing some of the things that you can do in native code. So far, we’ve covered AJAX, event handling, event delegation, DOM querying, and …

The King is Dead, Long Live the King.

Google Reader died last night. I wanted to make a brief blog post to help you rebuild (or even build from scratch) your news reading …

Catching, or even tracing errors in Node applications can be tricky sometimes. I wanted to share a few practices that can help you keep your application up in most …

Now that we’ve laid the basics in the cascading land of awesomeness that is CSS, it’s time to move forward and take a deeper look at organization and …

Web design today is hard to get right. I’ve been meaning to talk about front-end design for a while, but I couldn’t get the subject quite right. Seeing how …

JavaScript libraries such as jQuery serve a great purpose in enabling and normalizing cross-browser behaviors of the DOM in such a way that it’s possible to use …

As of late, there seems to be a steady trend towards minimalist DOM (and BOM) abstractions, these micro-libraries generally trade functionality and flexibility for …

Regular Expressions are a fundamental tool every programmer should understand, at the very least on a basic level. I might not make an expert in regex out of you, but at …

A task runner helps you automate everything you need to get an environment functional. Configure, build, run tests, and execute your web server. But there’s more …

I haven’t gotten around to recommending any books yet, and I wanted to break some words about a few reads. I’m excited about a batch of books I’ve …