“If an idea is obviously bad, find a cheap way to try it because if it turns out it’s not bad then it’s really interesting. If you have a good idea that’s obviously good, somebody else has probably tried it before.” Reference: https://youtu.be/z9quxZsLcfo

This may sound like an opportunity to boast, but it is not. Rather this is a story of foolishness, and how one responds when one’s back is against the wall. I took a year off in college, got married, moved, and enrolled to new university so that I can continue…

In recent years, it’s been common for JavaScript (aka EcmaScript) programmers to use Source to source compilers, also known as “transpilers”, to convert a more enhanced or modern version of the language to an earlier version that can run on older browsers. Transpilation: purpose In the past, developers had to wait until…

npm install you see this all the time in a build step, such as here: http://www.codecadwallader.com/2015/03/15/integrating-gulp-into-your-tfs-builds-and-web-deploy/ Most people do not check-in their node_modules folder structure to source control. No. …

hopping through the decades — I first encountered JavaScript in NetScape Navigator. But being a Windows developer, I learned its details from Microsoft documentation, which was written such that VBScript and JavaScript were treated as first-class cousins. At the time, being able to write a script that executes in an HTML page was the big…