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AKA callback hell, temple of doom, often the functions that are nested are anonymous and often they are implicit closures. When it comes to asynchronicity in JavaScript, callbacks are our bread and butter. In saying that, often the best way to use them is by abstracting them behind more elegant APIs.

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My intention with this post is to arm our developers with enough information around JavaScript prototypes to know when they are the right tool for the job as opposed to other constructs when considering how to create polymorphic JavaScript that’s performant and easy to maintain.

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Now establishing the formal definition has been quite an interesting journey, with quite a few sources not quite getting it right. Although the ES3 spec talks about closure, there is no formal definition of what it actually is. The ES5 spec on the other hand does discuss what closure is in two distinct locations.

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In this article I’ll go over getting Kali Linux installed and set-up. I’ll go over a few of the packages in a low level of detail (due to the share number of them) that come out of the box. On top of that I’ll also go over a few programmes I like to install separately. In a subsequent article I’d like to continue with additional programmes that come with Kali Linux as there are just to many to cover in one go.

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It’s my intention that the following details will help you create a system that automates “Specification by Example”.

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What I see a lot of, is organisations hiring code monkeys rather than professionals.

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Recently I’ve undertaken the task of reviewing some JavaScript MV* frameworks to help organise/structure the client side code within an application I’m currently working on. This is about the third time I’ve done this. Each time has been for a different type of application with completely different requirements, frameworks and libraries to consider. Unlike Angular and Ember, Backbone is a small library. Marionette adds quite a lot of extra functionality and provides some nice abstractions on top . All mentioned frameworks/libraries are free and open source.

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I’ve recently undertaken another round of evaluating .NET mocking (fake/substitute/dummy/stub/ or what ever you want to call them now) libraries. Interestingly the landscape has changed quite a bit since last time I went through this exercise, which was about two years ago. The outcome of the previous investigation is at the bottom of this post.

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I recently evaluated the support for the top two CSS preprocessors (Sass and Less) for the environment my client team and myself are currently constrained to (Visual Studio 2012).

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This is a result of a lot of trial and error, reading, notes taken, advice from more knowledgeable people than myself over a period of a few months in my spare time. This is the basis of a web site I’m writing for a new business endeavour.