anders.tyckr.com

Today the developers worked hard, and have been for a long time now, to release the Chamomile version of the site.

The first-page is completely redone, and the search results are much better organized and with better information about the restaurants.

I really like the interface of the first page though. Just type in a location and press enter or drag the map to the place you want to look at. Then if you want to, refine your search in step 2 and press enter. The map refreshes to see if you'll find any restaurants. In step 3 you say how big your party is and when you want to go and voilla... you get a nice page with results.

And you can save that search if you want to... just click the "link to this search" button and get the url to save or share with your friends.

YUIBlog at Yahoo have a nice video on Joseph Smarr from Plaxo talking about javascript best practices. I have been saying for a long time that it is not always good to code javascript in a strictly OO fashion, but instead use namespaces for protection. In some places it is good, but the mindset with javascript should be that "How can I solve this with the fewest lines of code" and not "How can I solve this the most 'beautiful' way".

Don't get me wrong, I really like beautiful solutions, but just not when they are done with 100 lines of code to be OO, when it could be done with 10 lines.

Joseph Smarr has some other good points where he argues in a similar fashion as Yoda, "You must unlearn what you have learned", meaning that regular coding best practices sometimes does not apply to javascript.

//Anders