http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/Default.aspxA collection of the best articles on the Internet. en-UShttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/Default.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/images/RSS2Image.gif7760K. Scott AllenSubtext Version 2.2.0.0http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/10/trying-out-javascript-v-next.aspxK. Scott AllenTue, 10 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/10/trying-out-javascript-v-next.aspx2http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1182.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1182.aspxECMAScript Harmony is the future of JavaScript, and something you can experiment with using the stable builds of Chrome (my machine is currently running 18.0.1025.152 m, but that is subject to change...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/09/a-refactoring-experiment.aspxK. Scott AllenMon, 09 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/09/a-refactoring-experiment.aspx10http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1181.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1181.aspxSoon I'll be giving a group of developers some code and asking them to do some refactoring. The bad news is the code is hard to read. Some might say it's intentionally obfuscated, but let's not...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/05/the-bar-is-even-higher-now.aspxK. Scott AllenThu, 05 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/05/the-bar-is-even-higher-now.aspx7http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1179.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1179.aspxIt's been just over 8 years since Michael Feathers wrote "The Bar Is Higher Now". I don't care how good you think your design is. If I can't walk in and write a test for an arbitrary method of...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/03/jquery-ui-autocomplete-and-automatic-form-submit.aspxK. Scott AllenWed, 04 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/03/jquery-ui-autocomplete-and-automatic-form-submit.aspx3http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1178.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1178.aspxIt's a common to automatically submit a form after a user selects an item from an autocomplete list. The keyword here is "select" – it will lead you to handling the select event of the jQuery UI...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/03/quacks-at-work.aspxK. Scott AllenTue, 03 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/03/quacks-at-work.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1177.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1177.aspx"The Lords of Finance" includes a story about famous economist John Maynard Keynes, who was diagnosed with a chronic cardiac condition and needed medical help*. In 1939, he fell into the hands...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/01/whats-wrong-with-this-code-29.aspxK. Scott AllenMon, 02 Apr 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/04/01/whats-wrong-with-this-code-29.aspx12http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1176.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1176.aspxHere is some code similar to other code I've seen that has a severe bug. The Entity Framework model configuration is setup to allow optimistic concurrency checks via a movie's Version property. ...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/29/a-simpler-mapreduce-with-mongodb-and-c.aspxK. Scott AllenThu, 29 Mar 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/29/a-simpler-mapreduce-with-mongodb-and-c.aspx2http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1174.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1174.aspxContinuing from the previous post about MapReduce with MongoDB, we can clean up the code a bit using an extension method that takes a single string parameter. var db =...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/28/whiteboard-architecture.aspxK. Scott AllenWed, 28 Mar 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/28/whiteboard-architecture.aspx11http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1173.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1173.aspxIt's been my observation that the worst architectural decisions are made when technical people meet by themselves in a room with a whiteboard. I'm not saying the decisions are always bad, or wrong,...http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/27/custom-slider-value-display-with-jquery-ui.aspxK. Scott AllenTue, 27 Mar 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/27/custom-slider-value-display-with-jquery-ui.aspx4http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1172.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1172.aspxThe jQuery UI slider widget doesn't display it's current value by default. However, you can tap into the slide event and grab the current value from the second parameter passed to the event handler....http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/24/readable-dom-ready-event-handlers.aspxK. Scott AllenMon, 26 Mar 2012 06:12:00 PDThttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/24/readable-dom-ready-event-handlers.aspx9http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/comments/commentRss/1168.aspxhttp://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/services/trackbacks/1168.aspxOne reason some people don't like JavaScript, I think, is because idiomatic JavaScript favors fewer keystrokes and CPU cycles over readability. There is a large amount of script code that is hard to...