Passwords are the most common way to protect our digital resources. They are not perfect but have been here for so long that they are now part of our daily life. …
So, you’ve heard about functional programming. And you’ve heard that it a good and right thing. But you’re afraid to learn new programming languages and all that new weird stuff with strange names.
Be aware that functional programming is not a programming language. It’s a programming paradigm, a programming mindset…
My fellow members! Ladies and gentlemen of the court!
My client has too often unfairly been an object of ridicule and public derision. Too many times developers, especially the developers of other languages, have made fun of him and laughed at him. …
As you know, React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to create Web user interfaces. Its success is due to several factors, but maybe one of them is the clean and effective approach to programming.
In the React environment, every piece of a UI is a component. Components…
At the beginning of 2000, Douglas Crockford claimed that JavaScript was the World’s most misunderstood programming language. The reason for this misunderstanding was mainly due to bad naming, design errors, non strict standard, etc. So, misunderstanding was almost natural.
Last year I tweeted something similar about the REST architectural paradigm.
I know, this topic has been discussed so many times, too many times. However it is always a current topic. Every time a Java or C# or any other OOP language developer get in touch with JavaScript, he complains of it. …
Suppose you are so good at writing self explanatory code: easy to read and to understand. Congratulations! This is not so common. If you’ve been able to achieve this result, you can afford to say anyone asking you info about your software: read the code!
Well, maybe that’s not right…
In the late sixties, Edsger Dijkstra wrote an article about the use of the goto statement, highlighting how it encouraged the spread of a unstructured code style often hard to understand: the so called spaghetti code. …
It is more than one year and half since the class construct has become part of the official JavaScript syntax. Introduced by the ECMAScript 2015 specifications, this construct has been enthusiastically welcomed by many developers. Indeed, it has been considered a sign of the formalization of various attempts to simulate…
We all agree. Documenting code is a waste of time and a considerable cost. It is much better to refer directly to the code if you want to understand how an program works internally. …
