Category Archives: javascript

[JavaScript] Finding Equidistant Lat/Long Coordinates

Posted on December 3, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a quick one that was inspired by a StackOverflow question and built using the references posted here. It allows you to compute the position of an arbitrary number of points (expressed as latitude/longitude pairs) equidistant from a given centerpoint … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Creating an Animated Hurricane Tracker

Posted on September 11, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a fun little diversion I came up with when the news was all abuzz with information about Hurricane Irene. Now I use Wikipedia almost exclusively for keeping track of this sort of thing as I find that it consistently … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Naming Your Function ‘$’ is not Clever

Posted on July 16, 2011 by aroth

The atrocity that is the dollar function dates back at least 2005 and the introduction of the Prototype Framework. Back in those days, ‘$()‘ was simply a shorthand way of saying ‘document.getElementById()‘ without having to type all 24 characters. And … Continue reading →

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Introducing Webcomix

Posted on March 19, 2011 by aroth

I wanted to take a brief moment to invite anyone who stumbles across this post to beta-test my latest personal project; Webcomix. Webcomix is a simple web-comic aggregation service that allows you to read a number of different comics on … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript + CSS] Fun with Google Maps

Posted on March 11, 2011 by aroth

Here are a couple of quick Google Maps hacks that I came up with quite awhile ago; several years ago, in fact. While not hugely useful or profound, they do expose some fairly large holes in the Google Maps API. … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] setTimeout() and Closures

Posted on February 20, 2011 by aroth

If you’ve done any amount of non-trivial JavaScript coding then you have probably come across the ‘setTimeout()‘ function before. In case you haven’t, this function takes a JavaScript expression and evaluates/executes it after a set delay (specified in milliseconds). For … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] parseInt() Quirks

Posted on February 19, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a subtle little feature of JavaScript’s ‘parseInt()‘ function that I recently stumbled across. The radix used in the parse will default to 8 (octal) if the string you are parsing includes a leading zero. For instance: …will return 7, … Continue reading →

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