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user24 / gist:1187386

Created September 1, 2011 21:48

naive debug function

	// Crappy naive debug wrapper function which sucks
	function debug(msg) {
	console.log(msg),
	}

user24 / gist:1187400

Created September 1, 2011 21:56

debug in use

	var debug = true;

	function parseJSON(json) {
	debug && console.log('parsing json');
	if(typeof json == 'string') {
	json = JSON.parse(json);
	}

	debug && console.log('got json', json);
	}

user24 / gist:1187424

Created September 1, 2011 22:09

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user24 / gist:1188669

Created September 2, 2011 14:06

Revealing Module Pattern

	// Define an object using the Revealing Module Pattern
	var myCounter = function() {

	// Both Private and Public methods and properties are defined here

	var counter = 0;

	function count() {
	return 0+counter;
	}

user24 / gist:1189300

Created September 2, 2011 17:55

Node memory leak?

user24 / gist:1201439

Created September 7, 2011 19:16

Async Loop Pitfall

	// the following code outputs: 999999999

	var someArray = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];

	for(var i=0 ; i<someArray.length ; i++) {

	performSomeAsyncOperation("foo", function hereIsACallback() {
	console.log(someArray[i]);
	});
	}

user24 / gist:1201490

Created September 7, 2011 19:33

Various For Loop Patterns

	var i=0;

	// 01234
	for(i=0 ; i<5 ; i++) {
	console.log('standard for loop', i);
	}

	// 55555
	for(i=0 ; i<5 ; i++) {
	setTimeout(function() {

user24 / option1.js

Created November 27, 2011 16:36

various code style options

	var handling = false;

	window.onSomeEvent = function handleEvent() {
	if(handling) return;
	handling = true;
	/* some other handler code here which eventually switches handling off again */
	};

user24 / ifstyle.js

Created November 27, 2011 22:59

	var hasMultipleArgs = args.length > 1;
	var argIsString = typeof arg == 'string';
	var argIsSentence = ~arg.indexOf(' ');
	var argIsFormattingOption = ~arg.indexOf('%');

	if (hasMultipleArgs && argIsString && !argIsSentence && !argIsFormattingOption) { /.../ }

	// see https://github.com/observing/devnull/blob/master/lib/logger.js#L364-367 for alternative style

user24 / remove_script.html

Created January 30, 2012 13:04