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Object Literals vs. Constructed Objects in JavaScript

Post by Justin in JavaScript, Programming

Another discussion born from a question at stackoverflow.  Today I’m laying out the differences between object literals and constructed objects, when to use which, how to get the most out of them, and a few other tricks along the way.  Let’s get started. Read Entire Post

Justin

Generic Singleton Factory in JavaScript

Post by Justin in JavaScript

I recently contributed this little tidbit to stackoverflow’s Hidden Features of JavaScript and thought it would be best to elaborate it on it fully. In a recent client project, I needed a generic method to produce singleton instances of interface widgets.  This is the method that I came up with and it works pretty well. Before we begin, these are not singleton classes in the normal sense, but a generic singleton factory. Read Entire Post