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rior motives.
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Category: Web Development
A Lesson in Functional JavaScript
Posted in All, JavaScript, Software Design, Web Development
Functional programming is all about passing functions around. Let’s try a practical example in JavaScript, using high order functions, filters, “currying” and more.
Modularizing The JavaScript You Already Have
Over time, without structure, things fall apart. So give them structure, a few conventions, and start to make them more maintainable. Let me say more, at least in the context of JavaScript in your applications (or did you think I was talking about gardens or buildings or such? lol.)
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Which Server-Side Swift Framework Is Best For Your Project?
Posted in Mobile Development, Software Design, Swift, Tools, Web Development
Server-side Swift is making waves in the web and services worlds, and developers from iOS, web and other coding backgrounds are increasingly joining the server-side Swift community. There’s just one problem (a good one): How do you choose which open-source Swift framework to use?
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A Ruby-ish Xmas
Posted in All, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software Design, Web Development
Ruby-ish, rubbish… Get it? Anyways, not like Ruby-ish means bad! Quite the opposite!
It’s the day after Xmas and because Ruby is awesome and delivered 2.6.0, we’ll get to play with some of our new Xmas gifts: Kernel#then, Proc#>> and Proc#<<.
ePubber – generating ePub files with Ruby
Posted in All, Ruby, Tools, Web Development
ePub is a digital book format which is pretty common nowadays. It’s supported natively by Windows and Android and it’s one of the official formats for digital books in the Apple Books store.
In this post I’ll talk about generating ePub files with Ruby and how to painlessly integrate this feature to your application. I’ll be using a Ruby gem I created called ePubber, which I created to help manage ePub content.
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Dependency Injection in JavaScript, a Node.js example
Posted in JavaScript, Software Design, Testing, Web Development
As developers, we are tasked with reducing complexity. Complexity is all around us, and good code organization reduces complexity while at the same time supporting increased flexibility, ease of change, quicker onboarding, faster debugging, and my favorite, better testing.
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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development
While the attribution may be hazy, the notion of laziness being an attribute of a good programmer is popular. I don’t know how good of a programmer I am, but I am really lazy.
So lazy that if I find myself doing something over and over, I write a script to do it for me the next time. Continue reading “Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git”
Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 4: Cadaver Dissection
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