The next step in this plugin is to ensure that we can generate documentation. While it may seem like a stretch to do this so early in the process, it forces us to build a few other pieces that we’ll need later. Our documentation generator will be JSDoc, chosen because it’s fairly mature, has a [...]

Dependency resolution, to most javascript developers, means adding another <script> include in the header of their html page, and in most cases this is fine. In fact in 95% of any javascript applications you don’t even have to host this file- just include a link to JQuery on Google Libraries and you won’t need to [...]

To those of you not keeping up with my career as a technologist, I’ve long since abandoned my Actionscript roots (PHP is in serious decline) in favor of Javascript and Java. There are many reasons for this: Industry movement away from Flash, a shift in implementation practices, and a personal desire to keep my own [...]