Object Literal Conditional Properties

I’m constantly coming up against adding conditional properties to an Object, in an elegant fashion, but always have to end up doing:

var a = {};
if (someCondition) {
    a.b = 5;
}

Routing Overloaded Controller Actions in Play Framework 2

Came across an interesting dilema whilst trying to wire up a tree control using Play Framework 2.

The controls api only provides one method for retrieval of initial remote data and also subsequent loading…

Truthy and Falsey — Assessing Javascript Booleans

TL;DR!

Booleans can be declared either as Ints, Strings or Boolean primitive types. To correctly evaluate a value from any of these types, we can safely use the following:

Try-Finally in Javascript

The usefulness of the try {} finally {} should not be under-estimated. You do so at your peril. For it is little used, and often misunderstood.

It was introduced in common programming languages of the mid 1980s, where a cleanup mechanism was required for…

AS3 Unicode Font Inclusion

During the final throws of a recent project, it occured to me that usual method of including various language specific unicode glyphs, had changed significantly in Flex / non-flash IDE developement.