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Tools to unit test your JavaScript Summary: Some developers may complain that JavaScript is difficult to test. With the current focus on the client side of web applications, however, unit testing JavaScript code is becoming essential. Now, you have tools to make sure your code is solid. In this article, learn about some of the most common tools for unit testing JavaScript: QUnit, YUI Test, and JSTestDriver. Code examples walk you through sample test cases. Explore...

Tools to unit test your JavaScript

Summary: Some developers may complain that JavaScript is difficult to test. With the current focus on the client side of web applications, however, unit testing JavaScript code is becoming essential. Now, you have tools to make sure your code is solid. In this article, learn about some of the most common tools for unit testing JavaScript: QUnit, YUI Test, and JSTestDriver. Code examples walk you through sample test...

First Google hire leaving for online academy

The first person hired by Google’s founders is leaving the Internet giant to devote himself to an innovative online education website called Khan Academy. Google on Thursday confirmed that Craig Silversteinis departing the California company he helped Larry Page and Sergey Brin build into the world’s most popular search engine. “Craig’s been with Google since the early days,” Google said in an...

Google has a Valentine Day equation for you!

Here’s a trick to impress your Valentine. Just type in this maths equation in the Google searchbar: “sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5″ and wait for the magic to unfold. A beautiful heart appears on your screen, sans paint or brush. The only catch is that it works inGoogle Chrome and does not support Internet Exlorer. According to Mashable...

The 10 most talented people in tech: In Depth

Hot industries tend to attract the world’s best and brightest, and these days there are few industries hotter than tech. From silicon valley to silicon roundabout, some of the world’s smartest, most talented people are building the future – and if we had the cash, we’d hire the very best of them and take over the entire universe. So which tech titans would make the most amazing tech firm of all...

Zuckerberg’s ‘Hacker Way’ helped...

Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious, shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. For Facebook, though, hacker means something different. It’s an ideal that permeates the company’s culture. It explains the push to try new ideas (even if they...

Challenge to Google, by Italian Professor as ̵...

An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network on Monday that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant. The new site entitled “Volunia” allows users to view the components of particular websites to find the subject of interest more quickly and to interact with registered users who might be looking at the same web...

Facebook’s story: From dorm room to Nasdaq

Facebook filed to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. Here are a few highlights of its meteoric rise, several of which were chronicled in David Fincher’s seminal Oscar-winning 2010 movie, “The Social Network”: October 28, 2003 Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard psychology sophomore, writes “Facemash,” a website that asked users to judge students’ attractiveness based on their...

Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success

Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerbergin his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: “Well, we’ll wait until he’s over 25 to file”. Wise move, considering that Mark’s title on his business cards read “I’m CEO, bitch”. This week Facebook filed its S-1 to go public. Mark is 27. How Mark managed...

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