A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural journey of porting a hit VR title to seven non-VR platforms. He explains ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

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Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference today, the company announced a range of new features that will be coming to its Excel application, such as JavaScript Custom Functions and more. Today at ...