Quality Code

Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code

Last Friday I received a bug report for one of the extension I maintain. It took a while to first reproduce the case and then to figure out what was happening exactly. I found that my assumption about the execution order didn't match reality and that I was fighting a race condition.

Maintainability

Maintainable Regular Expressions

I've seen a lot of regular expressions in my career. Some genius, others monstrous, some very subtle and some really blunt. The person who wrote the expression usually did his best to make