Reading Time: 13 minutesThis second installment in the “You don’t know HTML” series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
Tag: JavaScript
You Don’t Know HTML Tables
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers
How to Program Like a Linguist
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of … Continue reading
Weird JavaScript: How to make enemies with type coercion
Reading Time: 2 minutesWho cares about friends? How would you like to piss of Todd who won’t shut up about this season’s IPAs and Elon Musk’s 4D chess he’s playing on Twitter? Screw Todd. No one likes him and he deserves to hurt … Continue reading
Weird JavaScript: Why does JavaScript have a === ?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is another one in the occasional series of, “weird JavaScript” where I address weird stuff in JavaScript that only haunts your nightmares if you dream in other programming languages. Today we discuss what the hell === actually does. Buckle-up … Continue reading
Weird JavaScript: Why do you get an empty string when you add arrays?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m going to have an occasional series about weird stuff in JavaScript. Let’s kick this off with a weird question: Why is it that when you have [] + [], you get an empty string (”) ? Isn’t this against … Continue reading
Good-enough JavaScript Practices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not Kyle Simpson or Jordan Harband. I’m not some massive JavaScript influencer and OSSer who’s writing new lint tools and utilities. But I am a dude who loves code standardization. So I want to share some good-enough JavaScript practices … Continue reading
The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven … Continue reading
The 2010’s. A near decade in review
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 … Continue reading
2019: A Year in Review
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to … Continue reading