It All Started with a Question about Mapping and Filters
A successful answer to a question depends on understanding the intent of the question.
Category: Software Development
What is a Lambda Function?
When I saw the function and code, my first thought was, “Why in the world would someone go to all that trouble for simple arithmetic?
What Is an API?
An API comes in when two programs have to share information. It makes sure that the receiving program can use what was sent, without getting into the sending program’s business.
Persistent Storage: Database vs Text Files
How data fields are designed and stored has changed over the years and the options have multiplied, making understanding data structure an even more important skill.
Case Study: How Do I Put that on my Website?
There is knowing how to do a few HTML code tweaks, and there is knowing where the control panel writers put the place to add the code. And sometimes, where it seems like it should go and where it actually goes takes you down the merry path of wasted time …
There is Room for Many Talents in Web Development: Attorneys
As much as I would like attorneys to stay out of my projects, I have learned when to recommend that a client consult with an attorney.
When Technologies Collide: Category Collision
The seemingly simple task of working with and deciding on categories for your content is a series of struggles for most websites. This post addresses one of those issues. If a Post can be attached to many categories, and if being attached to a category triggers another function, which function of the many categories will be triggered?
When Technologies Collide, part 2
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Reactive Programming Treats Variables Differently than Imperative Programming
“… in an imperative programming setting, a := b + c would mean that a is being assigned the result of b + c in the instant the expression is evaluated, and later, the values of b and c can be changed with no effect on the value of a. …
The Problem with Using Time-based Words
We’ve all done it … named a file or a website folder with the word new or old or current or final. And, years later when we are on the third version of the file or site, we don’t know which new is new.