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"“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?"Recently I tweeted the sentence “In Software Engineering there are no problems, only opportunities, opportunities to learn” over on my twitter account. Of course this may have already been said by numerous people in the past, but perhaps not in the context of software engineering, not to my knowledge anyway, so for now I will […]
Read more "In Software Engineering there are no problems, only opportunities, opportunities to learn"
Ian Barry 