Prototypal vs. Functional Inheritance in JavaScript

Prototypal vs. Functional Inheritance in JavaScript

If you ever found JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance confusing, do yourself a favor and open this article, open a JavaScript console and code each example in the article. You will definitely come away with a better understanding of how prototypal inheritance...

Turn Your Mac into a Thermometer with Arduino

The topic of the Arduino came up around A&L’s “virtual water cooler” last week. About a year and a half ago, I purchased a SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for Arduino. The kit is a fun way for a hardware novice like me to get started and learn some...

Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js : Part 3

Part 1 of this series can be read here. Part 2 of this series can be read here. The project is a simplified morse code simulator that animates morse code being sent over a telegraph line. The complete source is available here and the running code can be seen here. In...

Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js : Part 2

Part 1 of this series can be read here. The project is a simplified morse code simulator that animates morse code being sent over a telegraph line. The complete source is available here and the running code can be seen here. In this post I’ll discuss the code that...

Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js : Part 1

CoffeeScript has been all the rage lately and I’ve been wanting to hop on board the bandwagon. I’ve also seen Backbone.js mentioned quite a bit and was even more intrigued after listening to this .NET Rocks podcast. I decided to convert some plain...