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…

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…

Land of the Giants

Land of Giants — artistic pylons designed for Iceland (Choi+Shine Architects) …

Better OSX Terminal Font

When working on different client OSX machines, they always seem to have different fonts displayed in the OSX Terminal App. I’ve no idea why a clean build displays differently on different machines/monitors, but it drives me nuts!

Selfridges Shoe Department!!

Hosh — B1 H.O.S.H. feat. Ost & Kjex — Woohoo