Arrays are a fundamental data structure in many programming languages, and JavaScript is no exception. To abstract away many of the details of working with arrays, JavaScript provides a collection of... Read More
Colin Ihrig
Colin J. Ihrig is the managing editor of JSPro and a software engineer. Colin began learning web programming as a hobby in high school 15 years ago.
Colin Ihrig
Data types are an essential component of every programming language, and numbers are perhaps the most important of all data types. After all, computers are really just expensive calculators. Like any... Read More
Variable declarations are one of the most basic aspects of any programming language. However, JavaScript has a little quirk, known as hoisting, which can turn an innocent looking declaration into a... Read More
Mozilla has been hard at work on their new operating system, Firefox OS. This week they took another step towards legitimacy with the announcement of developer preview devices – known as the... Read More
For all of you jQuery plugin developers out there, we have some exciting news to announce. The new jQuery Plugin Registry site recently went live. This new site replaces the old plugin registry, and... Read More
With all the talk of desktop, tablet, and mobile, there is another type of browser which tends to slip through the cracks – console browsers. In late 2012, Nintendo released it’s Wii U... Read More
Objects are a cornerstone of the JavaScript language. Many built in data types such as errors, regular expressions, and functions are represented as objects in JavaScript. In order to be a successful... Read More
Making Ajax calls using the XmlHttpRequest object is a well established technique for generating dynamic server requests. However, Ajax does not allow the server to directly initiate data transfers... Read More
As the mobile Web continues to grow, APIs are being designed which specifically target mobile devices. A prime example is the W3C’s Vibration API, which gives developers access to a... Read More
When it comes to client side libraries, jQuery clearly takes the cake. Recent research indicates that jQuery is used on half of all Web sites. There is a good explanation for jQuery’s... Read More
Mobile devices represent an increasingly large segment of all Web traffic. This traffic is so substantial, that APIs and design practices have been created specifically to cater to mobile devices. An... Read More
If you’re reading this article, you most likely know what a browser is. Now take away the GUI, and you have what’s called a headless browser. Headless browsers can do all of the same... Read More
Web scrapers are pieces of software which programmatically visit web pages and extract data from them. Web scraping is a bit of a controversial topic due to issues of content duplication. Instead,... Read More
In previous articles, I’ve focused on creating a Node.js server to handle HTTP requests. This article looks at the problem in reverse, by showing you how to make HTTP requests from your Node.js... Read More
