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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 and I'd like to talk a bit about it and the JavaScript wrapper I worked on. What is Thingdom?To

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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 that I found my JavaScript choking on exactly

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Array.prototype.diff()

Sometimes in the day to day you find some problem that is just fun to try to solve without a Google (Stack Overflow) search. Recently the problem I needed to solve was this: I have a list of 'feed' items on a page where a long poll is watching for

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(My) JavaScript Style

There isn't exactly a style standard for JavaScript. Douglas Crockford has a good list of conventions. The Google JavaScript Style Guide is an excellent resource and there's even a styleguide from jQuery that I'm not terribly fond of, especially because they so strongly recommend the use of double quotes over

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(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 and immediately remember how I do