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 …

Had a rather interrupted and not particularly good day today. Mostly because I incorporated mowing the lawn which took up a good chunk of he evening. But I did make some progress in the first chapter of Eloquent JavaScript (where it discusses the peculiarities of JavaScript's type-handling and coercion. Honestly …

Today was the first day of my learning challenge for learning JavaScript. I started off slow with just 10 minutes reading through the excellent book Eloquent JavaScript 2e. I read through the first edition and it got me the closest to learning JavaScript of any of the books relating to …

I'm taking part in the 30 day learning challenge for Sea Change on the Zen Habits site. I'll be tacking the language that has managed to elude me the longest: JavaScript. I have tried many years to come to terms with JavaScript and each time I've failed to make any …