What makes you an agile programmer? Is it because you work on an "agile" team or Is it because you use "agile" tools. Just by following some practices or tools can someone become a agile developer? The answer is a big NO!! Before we go any further lets take a look at the agile manifesto to understand what … Continue reading Are we an agile programmer?
The Hype Cycle of Software Developers
As software developers we often try to follow what is new/hot trend in programming. By doing this we would end up using technologies without fully understanding the pros and cons. The Hype Cycle was developed by Gartner, an IT research and advisory firm. It is a useful tool for assessing the progress of new techniques … Continue reading The Hype Cycle of Software Developers
How to create dotnet console application in 3 steps
Introduction .NET core is a Cross Platform Microsoft Open Source framework which supports variety of platforms including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, MAC and of course Windows. You can use either Visual Studio Community or Visual Code. Both are completely free to use. Install .Net Core SDK Download .Net Core SDK based on the platform that you are … Continue reading How to create dotnet console application in 3 steps
Beware of these in JavaScript!
All programming languages has good and bad parts. It is up to us as a developer to be aware of these bad parts and be prepared to cope. JavaScript has its fair share of bad parts and few awful parts, but still pretty good language considering the fact that it was designed in 10 days. So below are … Continue reading Beware of these in JavaScript!
Higher order functions for Array in JavaScript
In JavaScript Higher Order Functions are functions which operates on other functions by either taking them as an argument or by returning it. Higher Order Functions basically provides an abstraction over action. Below are list of six higher order functions that I believe are most useful 1. Array.prototype.forEach Executes the provided callback for each items in the … Continue reading Higher order functions for Array in JavaScript
Unable to delete node_modules? Use rimraf!!
If you have done node application development in windows machine often you might have faced issue where the node_modules directory which you created would not delete when you try to delete. Node's approach to package management is often criticized because of its endless nested modules folders on windows. To solve this issue you can use … Continue reading Unable to delete node_modules? Use rimraf!!
Learning TypeScript Part 5- Functions
Functions Just as in JavaScript functions can be created both as a named function or as an anonymous function. Similar to JavaScript TypeScript also captures variables. Contextual Typing As you can see in the above example TypeScript compiler can figure out the type if you have types on one side of the equation but not the other. … Continue reading Learning TypeScript Part 5- Functions
Learning TypeScript Part 4 – Classes
Classes Traditional JavaScript uses prototype based inheritance as the basic means of building up reusable components. but this is bit different from the object oriented approach to which we are most accustomed where classes inherit functionality and objects built from these classes. Starting ES6 JavaScript programmers will be able to build their applications using this object … Continue reading Learning TypeScript Part 4 – Classes
Learning TypeScript Part 3 – Interfaces
Interfaces Interfaces are the most flexible way of describing types in TypeScript language. The only job of an interface in TypeScript is to describe a type. While classes and functions will deal with implementation. To define an interface use the keyword interface. Roles of Interfaces Describing an Object Describing an Indexable Object Ensuring Class instance Shape … Continue reading Learning TypeScript Part 3 – Interfaces
Learning TypeScript Part 2 -Variables
let and const are two new keywords introduced in the ECMAScript 6 (ES6, a.k.a. ES 2015) . Since TypeScript is the superscript of JavaScript the uses of let and const are already accessible in the language. let is similar to var but it helps to avoid some of the common problems with var const is similar to … Continue reading Learning TypeScript Part 2 -Variables
