Please update your RSS and ATOM feeds to this site. I recently discovered a small error with my back-end code that was allowing erroneous links to appear for my RSS and ATOM feeds. These bad links will work until the end of the summer at which time I will remove them and only be updating the proper links.
In attempts to make my JavaScript applications better, I frequently use Douglas Crockford's JavaScript verifier application JSLint. If you have never used JSLint, I would advise reviewing the background on JSLint
In order to use it more easily and efficiently on local files, I took the JSLint JS file and ported it to an Adobe AIR application for the desktop. You can import the file from your desktop or paste the code in directly. In a future edition, I will add drag and drop ability to JS files. I used jQuery UI for the app UI and plan to eventually add skin choices to the options menu base on jQuery UI default skins. The app will auto update, so you will be able to see new features as soon as I add them if you accept the updates.
Many newcomers to web development may not be used to how web implementations of JavaScript execute. Namely, in what order it executes. This can be the source of many errors that are difficult to pinpoint if you aren't experienced with it. I think this also affects people who are very experienced with other programming languages and fosters a lot of undeserved hate towards ActionScript and JavaScript. (It's important to note that not all implementations of JavaScript are the same, and that some may in fact defer from what is said below. This article concerns browser and Flash based ECMAScript.)
The thing to understand about JavaScript is that it isn't compiled for the most part. (This is not exactly true for ActionScript because of the introduction of classes in ActionScript 2.0, however, the runtime script remains the same. You might argue that it compiles into a *.swf file, but in reality, that is the combination of everything that has to do with the Flash file. The ActionScript still remains live.) It's good that it isn't compiled though, because this allows for much more dynamic, expressive coding.
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