If I look at my stats, a lot of people are wondering how to write a singleton class. I already wrote about it before but my old solution exposed the instance of the class so more than one instance could be created thus making it not completly a singleton class.
In short, you can use private variables when you return another scope when declaring a class.
This post is an update from the old post. A lot of things changed since it was written and the information in the old one is a bit outdated.
There’s something bugging me with javascript for loop : the extra work to loop though all elements of an array. Suppose I want to alert each element of an array, there are three ways of doing it.
Everytime that I work on a new project, I’m always unsure about which way to execute javascript on page load.
[Update 2009-09-20 : I will try to bring back ads. I removed them because I was frustrated, I bring them back as an experience.]
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I’m a big fan of jQuery. This librarie is just the best and simplest one around. I really noticed it when I wanted to get rid of jQuery in TimmyOnTime and try to use prototype.js instead, just to be more “rails-oriented” (that’s a pretty lame excuse don’t you think?)
Why I didn’t like prototype.js
There was not [...]
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