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Where can I find language specific programming standards and style guides?
Is there a good source of best practices, programming standards and coding styles for different languages, specifically Ruby and Javascript?
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Why the recent shift to removing/omitting semicolons from Javascript?
It seems to be fashionable recently to omit semicolons from Javascript. There was a blog post a few years ago emphasising that in Javascript, semicolons are optional and the gist of the post seemed to ...
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Should I nest functions in languages that allow me to do that or should I rather avoid it?
In JavaScript, PL/SQL and some other languages, functions can be nested, i.e. declared within another function. This could be used to break a large function into smaller pieces, but keep those pieces ...
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Returning an object or false in dynamic languages
Consider the following JavaScript function:
function Foo() {
function getPreferences() {
if ([there is an existing preferences object]) {
return preferences;
}
return false;
}
}
...
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Mixing jQuery with JavaScript
I just asked this question at SO about some bugginess I am experiencing with jQuery and IE8, and someone commented that he was appalled that I would mix JavaScript with jQuery (he has since deleted ...
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Why Should I Avoid Inline Scripting?
A knowledgeable friend recently looked at a website I helped launch, and commented something like "very cool site, shame about the inline scripting in the source code".
I'm definitely in a position ...
