I ran across this tutorial which was originally posted in November of 2012. Recently, I gave a demonstration of qunit in our technology discussion group, so the timing is right on. Test-Driven JavaScript Development in Practice Christian Johansen on Jan 14th 2012 Tutorial Details Topic: JavaScript Testing Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced TDD is an iterative development process [...]

Some Notes from a discussion of encapsulation in JavaScript The topic of encapsulation in JavaScript came up in our bi-weekly technologists group recently. First question was, what is encapsulation and why is it a good thing. The first obvious benefit is the elimination of global values. An example with global variables. TAX_RATE is vulnerable; it [...]

A co-worker showed me a neat trick today. Many of you have no doubt seen it, but I thought I would use it in a discussion about custom exception handling in JavaScript. I was buried in some Java Coding, so the topic was fresh. The trick: Math.max.apply(Math, array); Awesome. It returns the highest value in [...]

A good basic description of the Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript: Understanding Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript 02 February 2011 Behavior reuse is one of the key aspects of Object Oriented programming. Many mainstream Object Oriented languages, achieves behavior reuse by using class based inheritance. In class based inheritance, a class defines how objects stemming from it [...]