by Ateş GöralTumblr (3.0; @magnetiq)http://blog.magnetiq.com/When using a Deferred or a Promise, don’t just call the variables “deferred” and...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/oWgJiCSsYmQ/44526731073http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/44526731073Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:27:00 -0500javascriptdeferredshttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/44526731073The RegExp.exec method returns an array of results when there’s a match or null when...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/1qk--vfr93k/2723860058http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/2723860058Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:38:00 -0500javascriptregexphttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/2723860058I decided to give RoR another try (my first attempt ended with my attention deficit overcoming my...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/2ebl3t3wdFs/2192531961http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/2192531961Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:24:45 -0500rubyrailsrorhttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/2192531961Here’s a concise implementation for parsing UTC date strings in ISO 8601 format into Date...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/aVXCGgH3wHw/551754492http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/551754492Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:41:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/551754492The following cryptic bit of JavaScript is actual code that I’ve used as a workaround to a...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/sw_Md2eQWsU/551174742http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/551174742Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:37:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/551174742The official “Universal Code” that is suggested by Disqus for embedding the comment...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/yMPyCyCieus/505144194http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/505144194Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:53:00 -0400disqusjavascriptjquerytumblrhttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/505144194An inadvertently skipped semicolon recently left me scratching my head over a runtime error. The...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/LWycmX3wTPU/493356934http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/493356934Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:04:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/493356934Here’s a utility function for parsing query parameters: function getQueryParams(qs) { qs...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/YjI1v-V66g4/493442083http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/493442083Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/493442083I’ve created a bookmarklet to temporarily solve a very specific problem at hand: I’m translating a...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/Zn0qDzr0aMg/495138451http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/495138451Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:08:00 -0400javascriptdotsubhttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/495138451Todoist is an awesome, minimalistic task management service. The voice-to-web service reQall, which...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/46PdgbVvAhE/497423627http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497423627Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:37:00 -0400pythontodoistreqallhttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497423627Here’s a quick and dirty XML/HTML generator. Without even bothering to write a new class, I...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/GVMBWe0PQT4/497430951http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497430951Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:42:00 -0400javascriptxmlhtmlhttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497430951I came across yet another browser discrepancy with a rather obscure scenario: Accessing an object...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/TwbqbNbCgAw/497447084http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497447084Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:33:00 -0500javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497447084I had been working on parsing the source of JavaScript function instances when I realized that...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/N3b3m2FSJ8I/497453111http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497453111Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:16:00 -0500javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497453111Last night I touched some code that hadn’t been touched for years. I refactored the plug-in...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/hknxsDYIWoA/497581970http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497581970Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:50:00 -0500projectsbrowsersizehttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497581970Here’s a JavaScript snippet for automatically generating a table of contents based on headings...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/1D78pXXhMqc/497600148http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497600148Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:07:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497600148The most common approach to time a function or a segment of code is to repeat it many times in a...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/vcWoNgF7qHI/497603773http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497603773Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:25:00 -0400algorithmsjavascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497603773A function for rounding a decimal number to a given number of significant figures (or...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/jdx3dcsMZ2w/497605344http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497605344Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:13:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497605344Here’s a nice trick for repeating a string a given number of times. Let’s say you want to create a...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/9K-Uvy9JKoo/497607385http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497607385Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:36:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497607385Most date formatting implementations use format strings where format specifiers like...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/LpMm_1dR9U4/497609110http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497609110Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:09:00 -0400javascripthttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/497609110After having it in my to-do list (the “what if?” section) for a long time, I’ve...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/magnetiq_rss/~3/sJTXfS0bxbA/515031648http://blog.magnetiq.com/post/515031648Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:49:00 -0400javascriptcanvasexperimentshttp://blog.magnetiq.com/post/515031648