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Talking to your CouchDB backend from your HTML/Javascript frontend should have been trivial. CouchDB provides a RESTful API – that means it can be directly accessed through Ajax/Javascript. But, as ever, there is a “but”. ...

Today in the official CakePHP google group I proclaimed with poise that having PHP helpers for outputting JS (like CakePHP’s JS and Ajax helpers) is a very bad idea. And then someone from the group asked me if I have any argument to defend that. Here are the points that I posted there: ...

Often people ask me some tricky (!) Javascript questions and most of the time same questions come back to me from different people. I often think that I should log down those “Freqently Asked Questions” in my blog with their solutions - If it helps someone someday! Also if any of these questions comes to me later I can point to my respective blog post. I don’t want to repeat myself :P ...