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Web Scraping 101

Web Scraping 101

Sometimes you might want to get some data from a webpage, and sometimes you might want to do that using some code.

Thingdom JavaScript Wrapper

Of late I have been working working on several different projects in my day to day. Our team has been pushing out the release of a new tool called Thingdom [https://thingdom.io/] and I'd like to talk a bit about it and the JavaScript wrapper I worked on. What

Array.prototype.diff(meaCulpa)

So, it turns out that when you go off all half-cocked all willy-nilly extending a core functionality of JavaScript it's bound to result in a hiccup now and then. It was, then, a few days after posting about my new 'diff' function [https://ephbaum.dev/array-prototype-diff/] that I found my

Array.prototype.diff()

Update - 23 August 2014 A little mea culpa follow up here... I had to write a follow-up post that corrects something I missed here... check it out. Original article continues Sometimes in the day to day you find some problem that is just fun to try to solve without

(My) JavaScript Style

There isn't exactly a style standard for JavaScript. Douglas Crockford [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_crockford] has a good list of conventions [http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html]. The Google JavaScript Style Guide [https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml] is an excellent resource and there's even a

(How I) Use Multiple Cached Selectors with jQuery

I am embarrassed to admit how often it really happens, but I frequently forget how to use multiple cached selectors with jQuery and usually just fire a quick Google search and then kick myself when I see a Stack Overflow post like this one [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8526226/jquery-how-to-use-multiple-cached-elements]