Promises in JavaScript gives you great power of asynchronicity while you are creating Windows 8 Apps or Web Applications. Promises gives you the ability to call something without blocking your UI thread. Instead of waiting for a call to return something, let that function fire when it complete. In t...

This is a great article that explains how to get around the cross-domain issue for ajax calls; as well, it describes a free jsonp service that allows you to minify your urls. Something to practice on!

In this post we will take a look at the Blue Bird who triggers events and messages that scatter to infiltrate the pig's castle. Slowly, one by one, the birds will take back what it theirs to keep!

For ages the birds used to litter the global namespace (the window object) with their custom objects and functions. Over time the birds slowly learned techniques to protect their objects from the global namespace, however, since the recent pig invasion all of their anti-global secrets have been stol...

A diabolical herd of pigs stole all of the front-end architecture from an innocent flock of birds and now they want it back! A team of special agent hero birds will attack those despicable pigs until they recover what is rightfully theirs, front-end JavaScript architecture!

Going over some awesome jQuery plugins for your front-end UI

This how-to is going to kind of go all over the place. My goal is to get github data. The question however is, how and with what. I knew there were some available libraries, so writing straight and pulling straight off of the API myself seemed like it would be unnecessary work.

Before some months Microsoft has launched WebAPI framework for building and consuming HTTP services. This WebAPI can be called from anything like from mobile sites to JavaScript anything. I thought it will be a good idea to call a WebAPI from jQuery. In this post I am going to explain how to consu...

We've had a hell of a time building the DotNetKicks website using JavaScript while still keeping the site as SEO friendly as possible. This is a real issue for those looking to build single page apps and still showing up in search results...

Raygun.io, the cloud based error service that automatically records, tracks and reports on software errors now has support for JavaScript, Java, Cold Fusion and Ruby. This adds to the existing support for .NET, WinRT and PHP. The REST API is also documented to make it easier for others to create pro...

Helps speed up your site design by providing you with responsive design, script loading, and feature detection utilities. Latest version (0.98) adds the following detections: .mobile/.desktop, viewport (.portrait/.landscape), browsers (.lt-ie6, .gt-chrome21, .ios), and multiple viewport targets (.lt...

At this page you can find an example of javascript inheritance showed by John Resig

javascriptiqueryable: Javascript to IQueryable is a framework that allows you to write a simple query in javascript client side and then execute it server side with EntityFramework or a linq provider that implement IQueryable. On the server is used "Dynamic Expressions and Queries in LINQ by Mi...

Recently came up with a scenario where I need to call a Javascript function to update a label with client side time on auto save, while auto saving was working fine, the only issue was capturing the time, since the label was updated at server we would end up with server time, so the do get client si...