Archive for November 11, 2011

jQuery Rambling Slider v0.1.2 is out!

November 11, 2011

This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 11, 2011.

I am proud to announce that version 0.1.2 of the jQuery Rambling Slider has been released!

It really has been out for a couple of days now, but I’ve had a couple of busy weeks. Nevertheless, I managed to do the major refactoring that I mentioned when version 0.1.1 was released. So, what have I added to this new release? Here’s the list:
- Added the ability to call the stop and start methods from $('#slider').ramblingSlider('stop').
- Added the foldLeft animation.
- Refactored the build process, as the commands remain the same (cake build and cake minify)
- Added the missing yuicompressor (oops…)
- Reformatted the for loops to be more CoffeeScript-ish.
- Added the…
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The joy of writing CoffeeScript

November 11, 2011

This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 11, 2011.

I have been a fan of JavaScript for a while now, and I have dived into the CoffeeScript world for the last month or so.

Guess what? I love it! It’s been a great experience so far.

Definitely the one thing that I’m loving the most right now about CoffeeScript is the syntactic sugar. It’s basically a lot of simple shorthands for certain things (the -> is so handy). Take this example (and ignore what the excluded methods are doing):

I had this:
```
class BuildUtils
  combine_source_files: (callback) ->
    self = @
    fs.readdir './src', (err, files) ->
      self.error_handler err
      content = new Array()

      files = files.sort()
      for file, index
```
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