Web and Mobile Development articles
This is more of a snippet extracted from one of my recent projects where I had to sort a list/grid of div’s. Yeah, I didn’t use tables for tabular data this time, but plain divs, although this snippet will work just fine with html table rows too.
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I’m not going to dive deep into what Binary Search Tree is because this tutorial and Wikipedia does an excellent job at that. Instead I’ll mostly dicuss about a neat JS implementation that I came across recently, usable on the server side with Node.js and client-side as well.
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If you’re a browserify user, then beefy might help you bundle your JavaScript file automatically. It is a command line tool that runs a local node server which accepts a path to the JS file (with all your require() calls) and serves the bundled asset via browserify.
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Using the node-open module you can open files or URLs in the user’s preferred application.
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If you’re using Browserify to bundle assets in an Express or Connect application then you may want to consider using node-enchilada middleware to faciliate your bundling process.
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Browserify is an excellent tool that lets you use CommonJS modules right in the browser by bundling them up into a single large file. If you are well acquainted with Node and it’s way of loading modules via require('module') and exporting them using module.exports = ..., this is the exact pattern browserify brings to the browser. Not only can you write your own modules in this format and load/export them, but you can also use those installed via npm!
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First of all what is weighted random ? Let’s say you have a list of items and you want to pick one of them randomly. Doing this seems easy as all that’s required is to write a little function that generates a random index referring to one of the items in the list. Sometimes plain randomness is not enough, we want random results that are biased or based on some probability. This is where a simple weighted random generation algorithm can be used.
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