David Luzar dwelle

About This Gist

This gist summarizes the handleEvent(event) pattern features, something standard, something described by me many times, written in my tiny book, tweeted about, and yet it's something most Web developers ignore.

The `handleEvent` ASCII Doodle

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var handler = {   | any object that inherits or     |

Methods of regular expressions:

	Flags	Start matching	Anchored to	Result if match	No match	re.lastIndex
exec()	–	0	–	Match object	null	unchanged
	/g	re.lastIndex	–	Match object	null	index after match
	/y	re.lastIndex	re.lastIndex	Match object	null	index after match
	/gy	re.lastIndex	re.lastIndex	Match object	null	index after match
test()	(Any)	(like exec())	(like exec())	true	false	(like exec())

Antonym List

Note: The table headings (positive/negative) are not necessarily meaningful.

Positive	Negative
`acquire`	`release`
`add`	`remove` (e.g. an item), `subtract` (arithmetic)
`advance`	`retreat`
`allocate`	`deallocate` (correct), `free` (common)
`allow`	`deny`

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

	// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
	// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

	// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

	// MIT license

	(function() {
	var lastTime = 0;
	var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];

	/**
	* jQuery alterClass plugin
	*
	* Remove element classes with wildcard matching. Optionally add classes:
	* $( '#foo' ).alterClass( 'foo-* bar-*', 'foobar' )
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2011 Pete Boere (the-echoplex.net)
	* Free under terms of the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
	*
	*/