A Critique of the Thoughtworks Tech Radar on Javascript Testing
The Thoughtworks' Tech Radar has come out again and there is no change in the recommendation on Javascript testing. The radar recommends to "Adopt Jasmine paired with Node.js". This is…
Auto-install Node.js and npm from Makefile
This is how you can detect existing Node.js and npm, or automatically install a temporary Node.js if none is already installed. About the only things needed are make, bash, curl…
Javascript Conditionals
As we all know, Javascript is a very flexible language. In the article I will show different ways to execute conditional code by using some common idioms from Javascript and…
Robotium 4.0 – Web Support!
Robotium is a UI test framework for Android applications. With Robotium, test case developers can in easy fashion write function and system tests for Android applications. Robotium has until now only…
Poor man’s two-way binding in Windows 8 (WinJS)
If you’re a web developer with prior experience from MVVM/MV* frameworks like Knockout or Batman going into Windows 8 development, one thing you quickly notice is the lack of two-way…
Add REST, CORS and authentication to MongoDB
Summary This blog describes One simple approach to access MongoDB using REST, CORS (Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing) and with simple authentication and authorization. Background This mini-project started because I wanted a way for…
Tests in Javascript Metro Applications
One thing I miss in the tools and templates around HTML5/Javascript development for Windows 8 is a test strategy, or at least some encouragement in the templates to send you…
Simple AOP in JavaScript
During a recent re-factoring of some JavaScript I accidentally removed the last line of a function that told the UI to re-render according to the new data. After that I figured, why not move this outside of the…
Custom events in WinJS
In this post, we'll perform a refactoring that moves some code that controls the AppBar in a Metro application written in HTML5. The code is currently placed in each page…
Windows 8 for Web Developers, TechDays 2012 Debriefing
Yesterday we had the pleasure to present at TechDays 2012, with a session named "Windows 8 for Web Developers". The topic of the presentation was how to develop Win8 Metro…
Configuring Jasmine to work with Maven and JQuery Fixtures
For me unit testing Javascript has been an issue for quite a while. Our backend server usually have a lot of tests at various levels but the Javascript service and…
Writing a Node Module
This example assumes that you have a Github account. If you don't have one, you can get one at (suprise!) Github. It also assumes that you have installed Node and…
Simple Google Maps API Example
Recently I got to use the Google Maps Javascript API for the first time, which was a quite pleasant experience. The API is thoroughly documented and most of the parts…
Adventures in Gotham City
Introduction The choice of client side MV* framework ain’t an easy one. And fairly often a new one comes along. Among the usual suspects we find frameworks like Backbone, Knockout…
Braceless Programming
During the Software Passion Summit in Gothenburg, I had the privilege to talk to Douglas Crockford, the grandfather of Javascript and the creator of JSON and JSLint While I think…