The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric's Blog
A while ago, while I was riding my bike to work, I thought: “Would it possible to make one.plus.two.times.three evaluate to 7 in JavaScript?” I wanted to see if it was possible, and with some invaluable help from Mathias Bynens […]
Update: If you haven’t read the post before, please read the original post below. I got a lot of interesting comments on Twitter about this post, and among them the obvious problem that this approach is slow. Then it hit […]
Today and yesterday I’ve been visiting Nordic.js, a Scandinavian JavaScript conference. To celebrate the occasion I made a little JavaScript challenge that I announced at Twitter: I had a specific solution in mind, which I didn’t receive, but I got […]
A while ago I asked myself: who uses alert() for anything but debugging in web applications nowadays? It didn’t take long to go from that question to the idea that I should make something that uses only native dialogs, just […]
Lately I have taken an interest in web application security, as covered by OWASP. One common vulnerability in web applications is to be sensitive to CSRF attacks. I have made a small tool in the form of a bookmarklet to […]
Yesterday, I wrote a JavaScript function that returned another function. At one place I wanted to call the returned function immediately, resulting in code looking somewhat like this: When seeing that code, I asked myself: would it be possible to […]
Today I used the “selector1, selector2, selectorN” selector in jQuery and was confused that, in some cases, when looping over the results I got them in the order of the selectors and not in the order of the elements in […]
The idea Some applications that play sound do not allow the user to save those sounds for later listening. However, it is possible to tap into the audio playing through the sound card and record it to file (see here […]
Since December I am a Linux-only user at home, but previously I had a mac. One of my main problems was that it was up to the applications if it would be possible to maximize their windows. There is a […]
JavaScript does not have modules builtin, but since it is such an open language, it is possible for the developer to create a custom module system. Looking around on the web, it is soon obvious that there are several ways […]