One of the projects I’m working on deals with source maps.

CoffeeScript, what can I tell ya - I didn’t want to love it.

EDIT: My fork is no longer needed. The folks at docco saw the same thing and recently ported over the library to use highlight.js.

I spent a good bit of time working on the Esvalidate code that comes with Esprima, trying to get it to work smoothly with my sublime plugin. After submitting a massive pull request to the author of Esprima and our reviewing my code we came to a conclusion - the new code was better served in its own library.

A friend and I were working on some code together when we found an interesting edge case in .Net that neither of us knew about. This is what we knew: if you have a class with a protected field in it, if you declare a private class inside of that class, the private class can access the protected variable. The example below shows what this looks like.

I’ve recently created a portfolio on Pathbrite. If you haven’t heard of Pathbrite, they are a company aiming to:

In relation to my previous posts confessing my love for sublime, and my enjoyment of Esprima, here is some code that showcases both: An Esprima plugin for Sublime Test!

I came across a brilliant project the other day - Esprima from Ariya Hidayat, the author of PhantomJS. What is Esprima? Esprima is a JavaScript Parser written in JavaScript Syntax Validator. It forms the basis of several different tools - a minifier, a code coverage tool, a syntax validator - just to name a few. I was immediately interested in the syntax validation tool. It’s not a linter - it just checks that the JavaScript written is syntactically correct. Why would you want this if you…

A preface to this post: it is hard to find a free SQL Parser for .NET. There is a company that has a terrible library that they charge $150 bucks for. There are a couple of incomplete implementations done for school projects or for narrowly focused tasks. So if you want a no-strings attached free parser for SQL, you’re out of luck. However, since most people who want a .NET parser are writing code on a Windows machine, and use Visual Studio, there is (lightly documented) hope: the…

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