I don’t know how this is possible, but you can be programming computers since last century… and some young whipper-snapper can still surprise you with an awesome productivity trick. So here’s the story. I picked up a trick years ago whereby if you held the shift-key down and right-clicked inside a folder, you could open […]
This is the shortest note possible to warn you about the “TypeScript vs Babel”, “TypeScript vs JavaScript”, “TypeScript vs… pretty much everything in the world” articles out there. There are multiple problems in the articles I am reading in my feeds. Superficial The main problem is that the people comparing TypeScript with all the languages […]
Rather sadly, the FirefoxOS project got binned, which removed the momentum of the device sensor APIs that Mozilla was the big sponsor of. What this means for these APIs is that, while many are actually well through the standardisation process, the browser support is sketchy. Your motion and orientation sensor will show you very low […]
So, I occasionally share my car insurance comparison shenanigans and it’s renewal time once again. Compare the Market Once I logged in, it told me my renewal was coming up, and had automatically incremented things like “number of years you have held your license” and “number of years no claims bonus”. This was a graceful […]
I had a feeling I would be writing this article when I first penned TypeScript Mixins Part One back in 2014. For simplicity, I have used exactly the same program in this updated example, so you should find it easier to compare the simple mixins from the olden times, with the real mixins in this […]
There are lots of ways to make an identity immutable and unconfusable. I’ll show just a couple, but first the principle behind it. Your identity should be immutable, because you will accumulate lots of threads back to your item that need that identity. If the identity changes, you will be breaking all of the relationships […]
A long time ago I wrote that you should Stop Mixing TypeScript Internal and External Modules. Well it is time to update my information on this point… because they are now called namespaces, and modules. So my update is simply this: Stop Mixing TypeSCript Modules and Namespaces Let’s back this up with a bit more […]
If you want non-clustered indexes to be copied to your replication slaves (you probably do) you simply adjust the setting that you’ll find here… SQL -> Replication -> Local Publications -> Publication Name -> Properties -> Articles -> Article Properties -> Copy nonclustered indexes When you set this to “True”, the indexes will be copied. […]
IF you can keep your curly braces when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming bugs on you, If you can write symmetrical code branches, And eliminate the duplication that they reveal; If you can remain positive in your conditions, And know when to switch to a switch, And when to eliminate branching with […]
I get annoyed by articles that generalise by role or job title. The inane “developers are better than programmers”, or “software engineers vs software developers”, or even “software developers can’t lead your test automation efforts”. The reason I dislike such rubbish is I work with people. When you work with people, and recognise the humanity, […]