JC Fant IV
About
JC Fant IV is a Software Engineer at Amazon.com. He has been working as a Web Developer for the last 10 years. Currently he is diving into performance and other technologies around JavaScript.
Current Projects
Currently I am working on test for JSPerf and what it means for Javascript in General. Many things we think we know to be true, may in the end be incorrect. Do this, not that!
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Category Archives: Underscore.JS
jQuery 1.5 Deferreds
Eric Hynds on his blog the other day gave a very good run down of jQuery 1.5 Deferreds. From the post: Deferreds, new in jQuery 1.5, decouple logic dependent on the outcome of a task from the task itself. They’re nothing new to the JavaScript scene; Mochikit and Dojo have implemented them for some time, [...]
Underscore.js Templates
After the post about why Underscore.js, I think it is best to follow up on one of the best parts of the library. Now, I haven’t had a chance to go through the new templating in jQuery, however what I have found with Underscore.js has allowed me to complete some very complicated tasks in my [...]
Underscore.js
Coming from a more technical backend role, and moving into JavaScript many people tend to look for very common functions to make their life easier. However, since JavaScript is considered a "functional" programming language, most of those little conveniences are currently unsupported. So I went searching a bit. Turns out there is a nice little [...]