This week a developer who was pissed off at NPMJS.org pulled all his packages, including one little strange package left-pad that was a dependency for a frightening number of other packages and software projects, including React ( see http://www.businessinsider.com/npm-left-pad-controversy-explained-2016-3 )
Thick client applications (think AJAX) are on the rise in popularity and complexity. We need to bring the best practices of Object Oriented Programming to Javascript to meet the challenge of increasingly complexity. Rein Petersen brings you his best advice for building your javascript application using Object Oriented Programming techniques.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Sunday, March 20, 2016
I can't help it - I love PostgreSQL!
Recently, in regards to a new project, a colleague asked me to justify my panning of MySQL in favor of PostgreSQL. While I wrote it to him personally, I think it stands on it's own and gives a nice breakdown of PostgreSQL vs. MySQL for those trying to make the same decision. I expect some flaming comments but it would be nice if flamers will include any references/proofs: