“A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt Here’s a thinking tool: when you’re having difficulty finding a solution, guess. Then you have something to work with. In other words, when you don’t know what to […]
Learn MoreWebAssembly (WASM) is a new type of code that runs in browsers. Previously, developers of browser-based web applications had only one choice of programming language and/or environment: JavaScript. This was good and much gold did the people earn; nevertheless, some weren’t happy that they had only one choice. WASM is here to change that. WASM, according […]
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Overview GraphQL is an API query language used to obtain data from a server. It serves a similar purpose to a RESTful API, but with some distinct advantages. The first advantage is that the you will only receive the data that you request. Part of the payload of a GraphQL request is the list of […]
Learn MoreWriting Immediately Invoked Function Expressions or IIFEs in ES6(Also known as ES2015) just got a lot easier with the introduction of fat arrow functions. (global => { const MY_CONSTANT = ‘api key or something’ let counter = 0 let some_array = [1,2,34,5,6,7] counter = some_array.reduce (total, item) => total + item })(window) This is great. Much shorter […]
Learn MoreThis post is another by InRhythm’s own Sari Morninghawk. For the full post and additional links, check out the original Where My Girls At?” on her website. Women – Major Contributors to Computer Science Many computer science pioneers were women. The first computer programmer and the people who programmed the first digital computers were all women. […]
Learn MoreThis post is another by InRhythm’s own Sari Morninghawk. For the full post and additional links, check out the original “Cupcakes, Application Design, and UX” on her website. My grandkids are often an inspiration for many of my best ideas. For example, when I came home from work yesterday, my oldest granddaughter had her homemade cupcakes […]
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