Posts Tagged ‘ Efficiency ’

I was 17 when I announced to my orthodontist I wanted to be an industrial engineer. I was so sure about this. The weeks before, I had spent time scouring Encyclopaedia Britannica (yes, those were the days before Wikipedia) finding out what industrial engineers do and was hooked.

So, today, when I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal about Starbucks’s ‘Lean’ Japanese Techniques, my long forgotten dream bubbled back up to consciousness. I traded the assembly line for computer applications, but the passion remained, albeit, driven by another media.

There are many ways to declare functions in Javascript. Sometimes, the way we choose to declare them might just be a matter of preference, but it’s good nevertheless to know some of the hidden costs that can occur when using certain constructs.

Here, we’re going to take a look at two different methods and compare their efficiencies. Before we jump into these different methods, here’s a quick refresher for those of you who aren’t too sure of the difference between classes and instances.

I noticed I was being charged twice for my hosting account. The first time I noticed the charge, I logged into my account and there it was, 2 hosting accounts under my name. I clicked the checkbox next to the New Account and hit “Cancel”.

There has been some talk recently about frameworks. Some for, some against and some on the fence. As someone who has not tried her hand at a single established framework, I have to say I am rather ambivalent about them. When I first read about the first CSS framework, my initial thoughts bordered on the negative. I was constantly arguing in my mind about the extra bloated code. Then my mind raced to the unsemantic code. And it went on and on …