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Hi, my name is Marco. Working as a Senior Software Architect at Philips. I'm an Opensource Maintainer and Contributor. If you like my work, consider to sponsor my work.

I wrote my first blog March 2011. Mostly I'm writing on software development. In total I wrote 75 articles in 7 categories. Use search below to filter by title or click a category or tag to filter by tag or category.

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Writing modular JavaScript without polluting the global namespace

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Most of you have already seen a lot of spaghetti JavaScript code. One of the reasons you are reading this article will probably be, you don't want to make the same mistakes as others have done. So let's make the next step and stop polluting the global JavaScript namespace. Why is it bad to have all your script code available at global level? First of all you can possibly get a lot of errors when using modules developed by others, because you used the same names for you variables etc. The seco…

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jQuery events contributes to clean Javascript

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As the title reveals, this blogpost is about some clean javascript code example. Many developers dislike javascript because of different reasons. I think javascript is a pretty cool language. To prevent developers from disliking it and encourage them to show how great javascript can be, we all as developers have to write javascript in a clean way. This way lesser developers will be discouraged to use it. In this blogpost I will show you how to write some OOP style javascript, which you know as…

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Knockout that cascading dropdown

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In this article I will explain how you can make cascading dropdowns with Knockout.js. Knockout.js is a JavaScript library which provides you some stuff to implement the MVVM pattern.  Knockout provides you the following stuff: Declarative bindings: (Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax); Automatic UI Refresh: (When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically) Dependency tracking: (Implicitly set up chains of relationships between mo…