Day 19, and I'm pretty tired. Started chapter 5 but am pretty sure I'm going to have to re-read it again. The topic is on higher-order functions and while I get the general gist of what the author is trying to say I'm not grokking it completely. Going to try …

Day 18 of the JavaScript Learning Challenge. This time was dedicated to reversing an array. This exercise was pretty straight-forward though I did have to peek at the second solution to see how they figured out the middle of the array. Sadly once you hit the "reveal code" button it …

Playing with the exercises in chapter 4 of Eloquent Javascript.

Today's frustration: Default Arguments.

That is all.

Day 16 and once again JavaScript doesn't fail to bring about a WTF moment.

Consider the following object:

var anObject = {left: 1, right: 2};

if we call each of the methods of this object it does what we expect:

> anObject.left
1
> anObject.right;
2

But here's the kicker. Let's …

Nothing today. The resistance is strong, and I'm very close to giving up again. I don't like this language and never have. If it disappeared tomorrow I'd shed no tears. It represents everything that I hate about web programming and because it is pretty much a standard that won't go …