Making a date with JavaScript and JSON
I’ve always enjoyed a kind of love/hate relationship with JavaScript, something which I think stems from my early exposure to using it on Microsoft platforms in the late 90’s, using half-baked debuggers, inconsistent browsers and a huge degree of trial and error. It’s not that I can’t write clever things in JavaScript, just that it’s not my most favourite job: if I can delegate to someone else I usually will!
Last week I was left with no choice but to roll up my sleeves and get coding: I was putting together a financial trading application prototype for one of our new clients and wanted to use JavaScript and JSON to periodically update pricing information.
