The statement can function as a quick and semantic iterator for looping over object properties. In your console, try Awesome Resources…

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life), by Chad Fowler (affiliate link) This book…

Because it bears repeating: javascript and ruby have many features in common, including the ability to add functionality to existing objects…

Javascript and Ruby have many features in common, including the ability to add functionality to existing objects. Ruby monkeypatching Ruby…

or, What the heck is global abatement? tldr: Global variables are code smells. Declaring variables inside an application-level function…

Continuing my exploration of message queues… A common MQ modality is publish/subscribe. A simplistic queue model has producers publishing…

Why use message queues? Message queues offer the benefits of high reliability at the cost of performance. This is particularly useful for…

or, how to not fubar your git history As with all the git lessons I have learned, this one started with a huge mistake. I had merged a…

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency, by Tom DeMarco Trimming the slack from an organization in an effort…

JavaScript has a single number type — a 64-bit floating point number. Since there is no separate integer type, 1 and 1.0 are the same value…