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Another 10 Interesting JavaScript Features

By Kevan Stannard | Published: June 25, 2011
I previously posted about 10 Interesting JavaScript Features. Here’s ten more JavaScript features that I’ve recently found interesting.
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Should you use semicolons in JavaScript?

By Kevan Stannard | Published: February 10, 2011
There has been a quite a bit of chatter recently on whether or not you should use semicolons in your JavaScript code. JavaScript provides a feature called Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI). For the most part there are rarely problems in omitting semicolons, but there are a few cases where semicolons are required to prevent syntax [...]
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Creating namespaces in JavaScript

By Kevan Stannard | Published: January 14, 2011
In the past it was very common to see global variables in snippets of JavaScript code across the web, such as: name = "Spock"; function greeting() { return "Hello " + name; } A better approach is to place all of your code within a namespace; an object that contains all of your code and [...]
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How to use sessions on Google App Engine with Python and gae-sessions?

By Kevan Stannard | Published: January 9, 2011
Google App Engine with Python does not provide built in session capabilities. This step by step walkthrough sets up a Google App Engine app using the lightweight gae-sessions utility.
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10 Interesting JavaScript Features

By Kevan Stannard | Published: January 7, 2011
I’ve been doing some more reading on JavaScript recently and decided to note down some of what were interesting features for me. If you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while then please let me know if anything looks a bit off, otherwise I hope you find the list an interesting read!
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