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The new bug listings listings were the first time my squad, the Orange Squad, had a chance to work on some really nice in-depth client-side UI since our squad was formed. Not only were we implementing the feature, we wanted to lay groundwork for future features. Here are some of …
I recently posted about Initializing page JavaScript from the JSONCache. Now I’m pleased to announce that you can also get updated copies of the IJSONRequestCache, to make it easier to update your page. Brad Crittenden and I started work on this at the Dublin Thunderdome, …
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DRY is one of my watchwords. That’s “Don’t Repeat Yourself”, of course. If you’re designing your page to work with-and-without JavaScript enabled, then you’ll likely be tempted to repeat some of the user-interface text in the template and in …
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Launchpad has a nice feature for initialising on-page JavaScript, called the JSONCache. I recommend considering it as your first choice when writing JavaScript that needs to be initialised. The one downside is that due to bug #740208, it’s not available for users who …
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I recently came back to JavaScript, having largely ignored it for a couple of years. Development in JavaScript is much nicer than I remember. I thought I should share what I’ve learned. The first thing I’ll mention is YUI tests. If you’re a TDD developer (and if …
Launchpad’s test suite takes a long time to run. Far too long to wait for when you’ve made a change. And the likelihood that you’ve broken any given test is pretty small. So you probably want to start by running the tests that were likely to break. You can …
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