If you have written any amount of code in any language you are likely aware of code comments or remarks and how they work. This isn't really what I'm interested in. I came across a discussion about an open source project which had a requir ...

The longer people write single page applications, the more of them there are. The notion of a SPA harkens back to the concept of client server architecture, invented some time in the 1960's or 1970's. Now we build SPAs with services constr ...

After my last blog, I got a response regarding functional programming and performance. This is actually a common theme when people talk about functional programming versus imperative programming. Before we move into the actual performance ...

I was talking with a coworker one day pretty recently and I had a pretty sizeable revelation, people think I write code the way I do from the get-go. It's actually really hard to look at the final output in a code block and understand how ...

If your journey to programming was anything like mine, you started by looking at HTML forms to understand data transfer across HTTP. There is a lot of talk about REST and what it means on the web. I have heard people talk about the formatt ...

At this point it seems like everyone knows about URLs. People can rattle off google.com and myfavoritesportsteam.net, but knowing domain names is not the same as really understanding URLs. URLs, AKA Uniform Resource Locators, actually adhe ...

As SPAs become more common for web application development, the concept of state is moving almost completely out of the realm of servers and services and into the browser, and rightly so. Ideally services should only maintain state as pers ...

Javascript comes with a variety of types, and with ES 2015 and beyond, we are seeing new types emerge like sets and symbols. The primitive data types come with a standard set of comparison rules and default behaviors which make them espec ...

It was pointed out to me the other day that I suffer from the curse of knowledge. What this basically means is, I know something so I don't understand what it means to NOT know that thing. This can happen in any aspect of life and it's com ...

Regardless of whether you prefer raw callbacks or promises, there comes a time where asynchronous behavior pops up in your application. It's an artifact of working on the web and working with Javascript. This means that, although a functio ...