Before I begin, I should probably explain what a JavaScript Promise is. A promise allows you to associate a handle to an asynchronous event which will return either a success (resolve) or failure (reject). A promise is made so that the outward call will return in the future, attaching a then method to your JavaScript […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 4: Promises"Today I am going to introduce you to OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in JavaScript 6. Now, OOP is not a new thing in JavaScript. Achieving OOP in JavaScript can currently be done using Prototype based programming; this doesn’t use classes and instead uses functions to define the classes. For example: JavaScript 6 brings us an […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 3: Object Oriented Programming"Continuing with my series on JavaScript 6 for the C# developer, it’s time to introduce you to the Arrow Function. Arrow functions provide a way to implement lexical scoping of the this keyword. In other words, the variables may only be referenced from within the code block that they are defined. Let’s begin with an […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 2: Arrow functions – lambda expressions in disguise?"“It’s not until you realize most people are alike in this way that you can start to have more productive learning conversations – even with folks you strongly disagree with.” – Phil Haack This has been a topic that I have been meaning to write about for quite some time now. But recently I read […]
Read more "The Learning Conversation"C# developers, you may not realise how similar many of the language’s features are to those in the next version of JavaScript. The next version of JavaScript, version 6, has many syntactic feature changes that have been inspired by their equivalents in C#. Lately I’ve been covering a lot of the cultural aspects of a […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 1: How do I iterate?"This is an old post from December last year: Below is my summary of the key take backs from each talk I attended for Day 2 (and my final day of the 3 day conference) at the NDC in London. Continuous Delivery of Databases – Enrico Campidoglio Really good talk from Enrico on this topic. […]
Read more "Day 2 at The NDC London"This is an old post from December last year: Below is my summary of the key take backs from each talk I attended for Day 1 at the NDC in London. The creativity imperative – Denise Jacobs Denise kicked off the NDC with this awesome key note on the creative imperative and provided some interesting […]
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Ian Barry 