readability

Rather than converting an arbitrary decimal to an exact fraction (something like 323527/4362363), I am trying to convert to just common easily-discernible (in terms of human-readability) quantities like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc. Other than using a series of if-then, less than/equal to etc comparisons, are there more optimized techniques to do this? Edit: In my particular case, approximations are acceptable. The idea is that 0.251243 ~ 0.25 = 1/4 - in my usage case, that's "good enough", with the latter more preferable for human readability in terms of a quick indicator (not used for calculation, just

In JavaScript, the standard rules for code formatting don't seem to cut it. You still end up with messes of });}); all over the place and I don't believe I even know of established rules for the correct indention of anonymous functions declared as arguments to other functions. In short, I have trouble reading my own JavaScript, and I bet I'm not alone. I think the idea that I am coming around to is to just not define functions within other functions. Write every function with a name and as a child to the script tag. When you need to pass functions around, use their names. Of course, this makes

I noticed that even when paying respect to the single responsibility principle of OOD, sometimes classes still grow large. Sometimes accessing member variables directly in methods feels like having global state, and a lot of stuff exists in the current scope. Just by looking at the method currently working in, it is not possible anymore to determine where invidiual variables accessible in the current scope come from. When working together with a friend lately, I realized I write much more verbose code than him, because I pass member variables still as parameters into every single method. Is

I'd like to color numbers in a table for better readability: green for positive (+00.00); red for negative (-00.00) and; black for default case (no sign) Here ya go: $(document).ready( function() { // the following will select all 'td' elements with class "of_number_to_be_evaluated" // if the TD element has a '-', it will assign a 'red' class, and do the same for green. $("td.of_number_to_be_evaluated:contains('-')").addClass('red'); $("td.of_number_to_be_evaluated:contains('+')").addClass('green'); } Then use CSS to style the input elements: td.red { color: red; } td.green { color: green; }