What’s wrong with Angular.js

App logic and structure expressed in HTML, which is enchanting for beginners (Look’ma no JS, magic!), but terrible for real development. We…

It’s ok to use JavaScript generated GUID in a browser?

No. But we live in distributed and disconnected world. And we also like optimistic UI’s. Why should I wait for “foo created” server response anytime internet isn’t available or is terribly slow? Therefore every sane web apps must…

Minimal Progress Loading

Did you think about minimal and in-context progress loading? I did. When user click on something, and net response is slow, what should happen ideally? Browser native behaviour is to show some progress animation in tab header. But we can do it better.

bower link and npm link

try before publish

So you are working on brand new node or bower module, and need to try it in some app before publish? Forget about copying files, use npm/bower link.

cd app
npm link ../some-node-module

From blocking to unblocking UI in 3+1 steps

By blocking I mean disable button to prevent user invoking the same action before current is completed.

1. Block everything. For example, if user click to any button, block all others buttons. It’s robust, but brutal for UX because…