I compare YUI’s Grids CSS with Blueprint. Blueprint is interesting, but has some pretty major problems as a CSS framework, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend using it on a production site. YUI Grids, on the other hand, is indispensable. …Read More
Category Archives: Code Beauty
Javascript Style Tip: Use “in” and “delete”
Javascript provides two very handy operators, in and delete.
Consider this code fragment:
var obj = {
foo : ‘quux’,
bar : ‘baz’,
doSomething : function () {
// do something…
}
};
So, we’ve created an object, and then some other things happen. Later in the code, we want to remove the “foo” property, so we do this:
obj.foo = undefined;
Still later, we …Read More
The Most Important Things They Don’t Teach in CompSci 101 (but should): Maintainability
I stumbled across a great article about clean code from Jeff Vogel over at the IBM Developerworks blog site, via a /. article. Even more valuable was the How to write unmaintainable code article, which appears to have grown considerably since I first saw a version of it back in college.
A simple web search …Read More