“In computer programming, code smell is any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem.” — Wikipedia I found this piece of code this morning, I think it counts as something gone terribly, terribly wrong: return displayItemDetails(this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode, 14059111); (The code was in-line JavaScript, inserted into a onclick handler, generated [...]

>>> [] [] >>> [] == true false >>> [] == false true >>> [] == [] false >>> false == false true

function array_unique(a) {     return a.reduce(function(u, e)     {         if(!(e in u))             u.push(e);         return u;     }, []); }

I’m sure sorting method has a real name, but I’ve had no luck searching for it. function mapSort(array, mapFunction, sortFunction) {     // Store both original value, and transformed value     var mapData = array.map(function(e)     {         return [e, mapFunction(e)];     });         // [...]

Javascript is both infuriating and awesome at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever speant so much time tracking down annoying bugs (even compared to PHP), yet at the same time it makes functions like the one below very simple to write. For reference, the below code returns a `getter` method that we use [...]

Ever since learning about the canvas tag, I’ve been wanting to try this…. Yes, the captcha I used is amazingly simple to break, but, I doubt I'm smart enough to tackle anything more complicated. Though I feel it still serves a good proof of concept (espcially when combined with Greasemonkey) Canvas Captcha Results.png (57 KB)