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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. Undefined is not a function. August 22, 2016. Every developer that has worked with JavaScript knows the frustration of undefined is not a function . Most of the time the cause is something simple, though. A quick survey of StackOverflow questions around this error message shows some basic examples, such as: Mis-spelled function name Capitalization of words in function name jQuery is in no-conflict […]. How RabbitMQ Saved My SaaS. August 5, 2016. August 3, 2016.
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Using ES6 Generators To Recursively Traverse A Nested Data Structure
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. Using ES6 Generators To Recursively Traverse A Nested Data Structure. July 19, 2015. I’ve been learning ES6 for a few weeks now, recording my efforts as live screencasts for my WatchMeCode series on ES6. In the process. In episode 91, as I am stumbling my way through learning how generators work, I decided to try a recursive call for a generator function just to see what happens. And here’s what I came up with. The generator function I wrote to do the recursio...
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. August 5, 2015. The month of July was almost entirely unfocused for me. I spent more than a week on “vacation” with my family, and I spent another week sick and stuck in my bed. With more than two weeks of downtime, essentially, I feel lost. I feel like I’m not sure of what I’m doing … and I’m scared of that feeling. Why am I here? What is the real value that my business, my blog and my efforts bring to the community? I was having a mild existential crisis.
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. Some JavaScript Book Recommendations. February 1, 2016. There’s no shortage of JavaScript books available, these days. Nearly every tech publisher has a book covering just about every aspect of the language, the latest frameworks and the tools that you need to be looking at for the future. But this massive list of books can be quite overwhelming to sift through and find […]. Managing JavaScript’s this With ES6 Arrow Functions. September 10, 2015. July 22, 2015.
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ES6
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. URI/URL Encoding Strings In JavaScript/Node.js. May 2, 2016. I recently found myself needing to URL encode a string, in Node – to convert a space into %20 in this case, but also to handle other scenarios. My initial thought was “oh, great – I’ll need to find a library that doesn’t completely suck”. Turns out I didn’t need to find anything. JavaScript has […]. The High Barrier To Entry For ES2015 (ES6). April 18, 2016. March 9, 2016. Filed Under: Design Patterns.
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Airport Baggage Claims, Selective Consumers, and RabbitMQ Anti-Patterns
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. Airport Baggage Claims, Selective Consumers, and RabbitMQ Anti-Patterns. July 22, 2015. One of the patterns found in the Enterprise Integration Patterns. Book covers the idea of a “ selective consumer. 8221; – that is, a message consumer that uses some criteria to determine which messages it receives and processes, from a given channel (queue). The Core Problem: Selection. To simulate the idea of a selective consumer, you can write code that examines a message...
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Arrow Functions
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. 5 Tips To Improve Your JavaScript w/ ES2015 (ES6). March 2, 2016. I’ve done a lot of work with ES6 in the last 6 months, and I’ve found that while I do still have a lot of questions about some of the new features and syntax, there are some parts that a big win for everyone, right now. To illustrate the parts that I like best, I […]. Filed Under: Arrow Functions. Do ES6 Arrow Functions Really Solve “this” In JavaScript? September 28, 2015. September 10, 2015.
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About Derick Bailey
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. My name is Derick Bailey, and this is my blog! Is an entrepreneur, problem solver (and creator? P ), software developer, screencaster, writer, blogger, speaker and technology leader in central Texas (north of Austin). He runs WatchMeCode.net. Where he throws down the JavaScript gauntlets to get you up to speed. He has been a professional software developer since the late 90’s, and has been writing code since the late 80’s. Find me on twitter: @derickbailey.
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A Subtle Benefit Of ES6 Arrow Functions With Backbone/Marionette
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Trade Secrets Of A Developer / Entrepreneur. A Subtle Benefit Of ES6 Arrow Functions With Backbone/Marionette. July 21, 2015. I started a new Backbone. Application this week, and decided to put Babel in place so I can use ES6 features (if you want an introduction to Babel / ES6 features, check out my WatchMeCode series on ES6. I honestly wasn’t sure what benefit I would get, at first. I’ve been playing with ES6 for a while now, but have not yet found the “AHA! And turn it in to this:. The difference of m...
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