JSLint’s ‘unexpected end of line’ vs. JQuery style

I recently added a script to run JSLint over any javascript files that were changed in my last batch of commits when I push changes to our main repository (if you’re interested, you can take a look).  Immediately, I had my feelings hurt when it started reporting a bunch of errors and warnings.

Most of them I agreed with, but the ambiguous end of line warning when the line was catching syntax that I had very purposefully used to increase readability (for me). 

Vistaprint Lessons Learned – Part 1: Software Development

Over the last two years at Vistaprint, I’ve grown a lot – both as a developer and in general.  I learned some lessons through mistakes I’ve made, things that I saw being done correctly, and by observing processes that could have been more efficient.

Over the this and the next two blog posts, I’ll cover the lessons I learned in three different categories – software development, career and personal development, and lessons that could be applied to a company.

SVN Haiku

Here’s my comment for my latest SVN commit:

How can I forget?
Don’t access variables,
Unless they’re not null.
Bug-ID GD-34785