The Speed of Thought, Part Duh!!! (Or Driving Stick Shift with Javascript) April 18, 2013
Posted by ActiveEngine Sensei in ActiveEngine, Coaching, Humor, jQuery, KnockoutJS, Mythology, Problem Solving, Scripting.Tags: ActiveEngine, bad software, Ego, jQuery, KnockoutJS, Problem Solving
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Sensei is a libertarian – so you can interpret that to mean few rules, respect others freedom, government and busy bodies “leave me the hell alone”, stay-outta-my-way-attitude-person is his motto. That means the only way to drive is with the stick. Automatic is for the soccer moms. Javascript is like driving manual transmission – sometimes you grind the gears.
You’re hero just spent a half hour pouring over some Knockout.js code, wondering why his observableArray went MIA on each push. Can you see why?
var Question = function (id, question, sortOrder) {
this.Id = id;
this.Question = ko.observable(question);
this.SortOrder = ko.observable(sortOrder);
};
It’s not Javascript’s fault, it’s Sensei’s fault. Now you can see why he writes in the third person, ’cause it’s easier to remove yourself from these type of dumb mistakes when you can treat your persona as separate person!! If you see the issue, leave a comment before I post the resolution.
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