Ben Evans bencevans

You know how, in JavaScript, we can set a value to a variable if one doesn't, like this:

name = name || 'joe';

This is quite common and very helpful. Another option is to do:

name || (name = 'joe');

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Put a closure on it

Sometimes you'll have objects that manage state along with event handling. This happens frequently in MVC apps. Let's start with a messy example:

var Launcher = function(rocket) {
  this.rocket = rocket
}

Launcher.prototype.isReady = function() {

	//
	// Regular Expression for URL validation
	//
	// Author: Diego Perini
	// Created: 2010/12/05
	// Updated: 2018/09/12
	// License: MIT
	//
	// Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it)
	//

	From: Chris DeSalvo <[email protected]>
	Subject: Why we can't process Emoji anymore
	Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:49:20 -0800
	Message-Id: <[email protected]>

	--Apple-Mail=_6DEAA046-886A-4A03-8508-6FD077D18F8B
	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
	Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=utf-8

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Leaflet</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.leafletjs.com/leaflet-0.3.1/leaflet.css" />
	<script src="http://cdn.leafletjs.com/leaflet-0.3.1/leaflet.js"></script>
	<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.2&sensor=false"></script>
	<script src="http://matchingnotes.com/javascripts/leaflet-google.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>

	<?php
	/**
	* TwitterHighlights
	* Output filter to create links from Twitter @name, #tag and URLs
	*/

	$input = preg_replace("#(^\|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"\\2\" rel=\"nofollow\">\\2</a>", $input);
	$input = preg_replace("#(^\|[\n ])((www\|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" rel=\"nofollow\">\\2</a>", $input);
	$input = preg_replace("/@(\w+)/", "<a href=\"https://www.twitter.com/\\1\" rel=\"nofollow\">@\\1</a>", $input);
	$input = preg_replace("/#(\w+)/", "<a href=\"https://www.twitter.com/search/\\1\" rel=\"nofollow\">#\\1</a>", $input);

	/*
	Copyright (c) 2017 Chris Patuzzo
	https://twitter.com/chrispatuzzo

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	#!/bin/sh

	# = About =
	# This script when run will log details of the current active X11 window.
	# Useful for logging/graphing how much time is spent in different apps.

	# = Usage =
	# If --datetime is present as the first argument, the log line will include the
	# date and time.
	#