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Trying Out JavaScript v.Next
ECMAScript Harmony is the future of JavaScript, and something you can experiment with using the stable builds of Chrome (my machine is currently running 18.0.1025.152 m, but that is subject to change...

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A Refactoring Experiment
Soon I'll be giving a group of developers some code and asking them to do some refactoring. The bad news is the code is hard to read. Some might say it's intentionally obfuscated, but let's not...

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The Bar Is Even Higher Now
It's been just over 8 years since Michael Feathers wrote "The Bar Is Higher Now". I don't care how good you think your design is. If I can't walk in and write a test for an arbitrary method of...

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jQuery UI Autocomplete and Automatic Form Submit
It's a common to automatically submit a form after a user selects an item from an autocomplete list. The keyword here is "select" – it will lead you to handling the select event of the jQuery UI...

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Quacks At Work
"The Lords of Finance" includes a story about famous economist John Maynard Keynes, who was diagnosed with a chronic cardiac condition and needed medical help*. In 1939, he fell into the hands...

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What's Wrong With This Code? (#29)
Here is some code similar to other code I've seen that has a severe bug. The Entity Framework model configuration is setup to allow optimistic concurrency checks via a movie's Version property. ...

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A Simpler MapReduce with MongoDB and C#
Continuing from the previous post about MapReduce with MongoDB, we can clean up the code a bit using an extension method that takes a single string parameter. var db =...

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Whiteboard Architecture
It's been my observation that the worst architectural decisions are made when technical people meet by themselves in a room with a whiteboard. I'm not saying the decisions are always bad, or wrong,...

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Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI
The jQuery UI slider widget doesn't display it's current value by default. However, you can tap into the slide event and grab the current value from the second parameter passed to the event handler....

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Readable DOM Ready Event Handlers
One reason some people don't like JavaScript, I think, is because idiomatic JavaScript favors fewer keystrokes and CPU cycles over readability. There is a large amount of script code that is hard to...

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