• Unit Testing may be the answer for EU’s Software Liability Lawsuit
• LINQ in Javascript
• What Software Developers Should Know Coming out of School – Part 1
• Dependency Injection (DI) is getting lots of buzz in PHP community recently
• The Plague of Blindness

Most of the time, I have been sharing the links that I found interesting via Twitter and Facebook but, from now I will be posting them as a blog post so that people subscribing and reading my blog can view all the links I’m sharing in one place at same instance. I did use Delicious to do similar task in the past but it just didn’t work due to various reasons. The links post won’t be more than one per day hopefully and I also hope that you will get some extra information from them

Here are the links for today:

• http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-selectors/ The cost of using CSS selectors
• http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scripts-without-blocking/ Loading Scripts Without Blocking
• http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/07/28/the-best-way-to-load-external-javascript/ The best way to load external JavaScript
• http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/3831821 Four Crucial Factors for improving caching: Volatility, frequency of access, cost to recreate and size in cache
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html Is Design Dead? This is one of the most quoted article by Martin Fowler when talking about eXtreme Programming (XP). Even though, it’s old but definitely worth looking at
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308233570132684.html How to Stop New York’s Meltdown or call it one of the big states in the crisis

Normally, global variables are considered evil but in Javascript they are still used considerably.

var test = "test";
console.log(window.test == "test");

Okay, this one is usual and expected.

if (true)	{
var test = "new test";
}
console.log(window.test == "new test");

Declaring the same variable inside the expression also gives any variable global scope.

function smth()	{
var test = "no new test";
}
smth();
console.log(window.test != "no new test");

When the same variable is declared using ‘var’ keyword inside a function expression, it won’t have global impact.

function smth2()	{
test = "new new test";
}
smth2();
console.log(window.test == "new new test");

But when the same variable (test in our case) is used inside a function expression, it will continue it’s global effect.

function smth3()	{
test2 = "new variable";
}
smth3();
console.log(window.test2 == "new variable");

This case is a bit interesting and odd. Even though, test2 has not been declared earlier, it will be treated as global variable now.

Hope this help!