Nifty Snippets

Surprisingly, the "code snippet" widget used by the FogBugz wiki feature doesn't support telling the pretty-printer (they'...

Micro-post: I was truly shocked to find today that in JavaScript regular expressions, . (the decimal point) doesn't do what I thought i...

I used to have an article here showing how to dynamically create functions with true names. Except it didn't work properly on Firefox an...

I dropped by one of my Google Code projects, a trivial little jQuery placeholder functionality shim called place5 , and was quite surprised...

Google have finally made it possible to get the "What's Hot" rubbish out of your main Google+ stream. Here's how: Go to G...

Just a tiny one today, mostly to write this down somewhere: As you all know, ECMAScript5 adds forEach to arrays, where you supply a functio...

In JavaScript event handlers, you'll frequently see return false; at the end. Why? What does it do? The answer is: It depends . Before ...