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#41: Promises, Promises

#41: Promises, Promises

Thurs, 9th February 2012: An introduction to asynchronous flow control in JavaScript, with Premasagar Rose. We’ll look at handling multiple callbacks from Ajax requests, setTimeouts, loading images and other asynchronous routines. In particular, we’ll focus on jQuery.Deferred, which implements the Promises design pattern. Read more…

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#39: jQuery Best Practices

#39: jQuery Best Practices

Thurs, 12th January 2012: The first in a series of jQuery best practice sessions, with our new ‘Plugin Roundabout’ slot. Read more…

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#37: Using Underscore.js with jQuery

Thurs, 24th November 2011: Underscore.js is a ‘utility-belt library’ and it makes it a breeze to solve many of the common problems you’ll see when working with jQuery.. Read more…

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#34: My Favourite jQuery Plugin

#34: My Favourite jQuery Plugin

Thurs, 13th October: Everyone is invited to come and tell us about their favourite jQuery plugin. We’ll bring each plugin’s website up on screen and discuss what it does and why it’s useful. Read more…

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