Tumblin' with Tony

Hello fellows, I’m glad to announce my new project on the JSplain.com domain: COMPASS. COMPASS uses the MediaWiki core, which is a more appropriate tool than WordPress for what I intend to do. If you’re a new developer, you may be wondering why use WordPress, or MediaWiki, or Drupal, instead of a framework such as Laravel, or even coding from scratch. That’s a fair question! The answer is that we…

Welcome to 2018, a new year and new challenges ahead.  Yeah, January started with some new terms to learn and be warned about, such as Meltdown & Spectra . God only knows the repercussions of this new vulnerability! During the holidays I had a chance to review some of my publications, namely, Go Exercise In Plain Language volumes 1, 2 and 3, as well as JavaScript Promises. Not much has changed…

There are in general two ways to live well. You can be achievement-oriented, or you can be presence-oriented. While we’re all flexible and incorporate a mix of both, different people are programmed for different things. You should know your place on the spectrum before choosing your goals. Source: designluck.com/good-life  

npm does not support Node.js v9.0.0

Node v9 has just been released but the current npm version, npm 5.5.1, does not seem to support it.  Unless you have a reason to upgrade Node from its stable v8.9, let’s just waiting a few days. I am doing some lab work and I’l keep you informed. Cheers, Tony

TypeScript in Plain Language with Angular 5

Hello fellows, Just dropping a note to announce that both TypeScript eBooks have been reviewed and updated to work with Angular 5. This is a great time to download a copy and learn TypeScript as well as Angular. If you are currently reading Volume 1 or Volume 2, please be assured that you are up-to-date since I review these books and the online exercises periodically. Aside from a couple typos…

How the Web Was Created: Timeline History

HAVE YOU EVER WONDER HOW THE WEB WAS CREATED? The World Wide Web was officially introduced to the world on August 6, 1991, by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The following Web history highlights were originally referenced from the BBC. 1957: The United States Department of Defense formed a small agency called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop military science and technology. 1961-1965: The…

JAVASCRIPT PROMISES HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION

JavaScript Promises bring many benefits to the Web development community. The Promise object has been designed to make programmer’s life easier by simplifying implementation of callback functions. Now that JavaScript Promises are part of the JavaScript core system, everyone should understand what Promises are and how to incorporate them in their code. Even if you don’t see yourself writing a…

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