Comments on: A Week in JavaScript Patterns: Self-invocation

By: Bah Humbug

Bah Humbug — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:41:05 +0000

Why self invocation? The invocation is external to the function definition.

By: JavaScript Patterns, A Book Review « Room Full of Mirrors

JavaScript Patterns, A Book Review « Room Full of Mirrors — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:24:55 +0000

[...] the only thing present in that code from this book. I was aware of, and had been using, the self-executing function (immediate function) for some time before reading JavaScript Patterns. What had never occurred to [...]

By: Genuine Parts » Making your own success()

Genuine Parts » Making your own success() — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:23:04 +0000

[...] note that the entire snippet is enclosed in a self-executing function. This creates a closure and ensures that the variables are politely [...]

By: Create a jQueryUI Carousel Widget | Brian Crescimanno

Create a jQueryUI Carousel Widget | Brian Crescimanno — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:54:16 +0000

[...] function that takes the jQuery object as its only parameter. If you’re interested, you can read further about self-executing Javascript functions (and you really should; jQuery makes use of this capability extensively). Additionally, we’ve [...]

By: A Week in JavaScript Patterns: Load Time Configuration :: Love Mike G.

A Week in JavaScript Patterns: Load Time Configuration :: Love Mike G. — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:12:24 +0000

[...] most common technique for implementing load time configuration is by way of a Self-invoking function which returns the correctly configured [...]