Oliver Nassar

In JS, I ran into a problem where I needed to create a shortcut string, and then turn that string's value into a reference to a different object.

So for example, I create a string called 'oliver' under the variable shortcut like so:

Reading the docs is really worth it's weight in gold. Namely, noCache option/parameter for a new Request (aka. Ajax for mootools) object really does make all the difference in the world.

This took me way too long to discover:
When using event.target via mootools event handlers, I figured out, after way too much testing, that event.target is NOT extended via $, and therefore doesn't have accessors like .get('tag') and default's for the $ (dollar sign extension).

Frameworks like YUI, JQuery, Mootools, Dojo, etc., are arguably the best thing to have happened to JavaScript in 10 years. I remember when I first learned about their existence. I was coding my own animation script (functional, not OO, and definitely not efficient) that didn't do anything fancy; just scrolled up and down. I remember then hearing about dojo, and thinking I'd wasted so much time.

Then what I did, was go around to all the different frameworks. I don't even think JQuery existed in it's current incarnation at that point (December of 2005), and I looked around at as many as I could (dojo, mootools, and a few others that have since become relics). This post though, isn't about the greatness of these frameworks; rather it's about the terrible abuse.