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Please visit my re-post of this article.I had the privilege of spending time with four interns at Omnitech this summer. See our @Omnitech Twitter feed to learn a little more about them. Sometimes it's difficult to know how to have interns at a company, but we see it as an investment in them, the community and ourselves. We've had several interns in the past become valuable employees. It's fun to see how much they grow personally and technically in just a few months or years. I didn't have the opportunity ......
I’m trying to move away from jQuery, since I’m using Knockout and AngularJS more all the time. I’ve always done my AJAX calls with the useful jQuery $.ajax( method. Searching for “ajax without jquery” brings up a lot of results, but they all include how to do it with jQuery. First a friend found a tutorial on ES6 promises on HTML5 rocks that included an example of “Promisifying XMLHttpRequest”. Since promises aren’t in all browsers yet (IE and Android Browser) you can polyfill with es6-promise. Or ......
I’m using my DataService and AjaxService for JavaScript and upgraded to jQuery 1.9.1. One of my post methods, which was working before, started hitting the deferred fail, instead of the deferred’s done, even though the status code was 200. This method is not returning any JSON to the caller. The 1.9 upgrade guide states “Prior to 1.9, an ajax call that expected a return data type of JSON or JSONP would consider a return value of an empty string to be a success case, but return a null to the success ......