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Setting up timers and intervals inside JS objects

It may seem trivial but it has its tricky point. Usually, in procedural Javascript (this is, non object oriented programming), timers are set up passing the callback function on a string: function hello() {   alert("hello"); } // Will execute hello() after 10 seconds setTimeout('hello()', 10000); For this code to work, hello() has to be [...]

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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