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Formatting dates in JavaScript

2010-02-13T09:25:00.009+05:30

In most ways JavaScript is a pretty bare-bones language/development environment. Sure there are libraries like JQuery, MooTools, Dojo Toolkit etc., but there's nothing like Java's or C#'s accompanying standard libraries. So what's a programmer to do? When you are starting out using JavaScript, probably one of the first areas where you'll feel this lack of standard libraries is in formatting

Could it Really Be That Easy?

2010-01-27T16:34:00.002+05:30

Hmm... my ISP's service is really bad. The connection quality sucks: it's not just that the connection is slow (expected), but that too many packets get dropped. Watching streaming video is out of the question. Downloading files larger than (say) 1 MB is possible only with wget (wget rules!) or DownThemAll (Firefox extension). Manually pausing and restarting downloads sometimes works, but who

Avoid Those Ugly Links

2009-08-26T20:58:00.001+05:30

Usually when web developers want to use JavaScript to open a link in a new window with specific attributes (height, width etc.), they take recourse to this kind of ugly looking tags: Do Something! There is much to dislike about this way of writing code: When you hover your mouse over the link, the result is both ugly and uninformative—all you see