Day 13 of the 30 Day Learning Challenge and I finished off Chapter 3 of Eloquent JavaScript. There's some really good advice in this book about how to build functions (essentially make the function have as few side effects as possible). I did two of the examples. Here's the code …

This morning I fired up the "Favorite Artists" Smart Mix on my Squeezebox.

I think it knows me.

(Sharp eyed readers will note that day 11 is missing. Unfortunately I have many excuses for why that is, but no results to show for it. Mea culpa).

Today's lesson continues the functions chapter of Eloquent JavaScript. I continued working on understanding JavaScript's functions and got a brief taste of …

Today's learning challenge focused on Javascript's functions and scoping rules. Like most things JavaScript the rules are a bit off from my expectations. Take this for instance:

var something = 1;
{
    var something = 2;
}
console.log(something);

What is the value of something? If you said '1', JavaScript reminds you that …

If you've been following my 30 day JavaScript Learning Challenge you might have noticed what we refer to in the business as a "service interruption". This is part of the reason that I moved over to Pelican (more on this in a later post). Suffice to say Wordpress is not …