Weblog of Edwin Martin, webdeveloper http://www.bitstorm.org/ en Copyright 2013 Edwin Martin edwin@bitstorm.org (Edwin Martin) Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:21:08 +0100 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:11:16 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2013-3/newClass_-_a_class_like_wrapper_around_prototypal_OOP.html I’ve done some JavaScript programming with both prototypal inheritance and the module pattern, both powerful concepts. What I didn’t like about prototypal inheritance is the loosely coupled... Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:37:05 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-8/Beautify_Markdown_SmartyPants_GeSHi_and_Dot_combined.html Years ago, I wrote my own CMS, because nothing available would fit my needs. For text input, I initially used FCKeditor, a WYSIWYG-editor. It turned out to be very cumbersome to show source code in... Sun, 20 May 2012 12:33:35 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-5/Multi-video_chat_written_during_Fronteers_hackaton.html Yesterday I participated in the Fronteers Hackaton in The Hague. To warm us up Vasilis van Gemert gave a presentation about CSS3-effects featuring some creatures with laser-eyes and Peter Nederlof... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:46:12 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-2/Love_is_in_the_air_js1k_demo.html Currently the fourth js1k competition is open. It’s organized by Peter van der Zee and it’s besides a competition, also a showcase of what can be done with 1 kilobyte of JavaScript. Almost all... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:46 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-1/Deferred_and_promise_in_jQuery.html Deferred and promise? What is this article about? Deferred and promise are part of jQuery since version 1.5 and they help in handling asynchronous functions like Ajax. Let’s do a step back in... Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:29:33 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2011-10/Are_webdevelopers_elitists.html The last couple of days I was at the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. These were amazing days. The Last speaker of the conference was Christian Heilmann. He had a very nice... Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:20:46 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2011-2/How_to_use_the_jQuery_queue_function.html Last week I was at a meeting of the JavaScript user group Amsterdam.js and Michiel Kalkman talked about the sequencer he wrote. The idea is very good: it let’s you write loosely coupled software... Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:11:25 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-12/Combat_spam_with_SPF.html You might think: “combatting spam is all good and nice, but what has it to do with webdevelopment?”. Well, many webdevelopers maintain internet domains and that’s exactly where SPF takes... Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:36:06 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-10/HTML5_Game_Jam.html Last week I participated in the HTML5 Game Jam, an initiative of SPIL games and Google. The contest was held in both SPIL games in Hilversum, a ten minute bike ride from my house, and... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:06:05 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-10/Fronteers_conference_2010.html Just like the years before, the Fronteers conference 2010 was a success. It was held in the beautifull Tuschinsky theatre in Amsterdam. The event started the evening before with the Code Jam,...