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HHandling nulls in C# the right way

31.01.2017 — 7 Min Read — In code

Working with the possibility of null in any language that allows it, sucks. It's tedious, and there's boilerplate code involved, it's not fun and error prone. Luckily for those who write C#, there's a…

FFunctional JavaScript - What is a Functor?

16.06.2016 — 4 Min Read — In code

When you first start looking into functional programming, you hear a lot of scary terms such as functors, monads, monoids, lift, fold, etc. Some of those things are sort of complicated to understand…

UUnit testing using Typescript and Mocha

05.05.2016 — 2 Min Read — In code

Not long ago I wrote a post on how to setup testing using Mocha, Chai, Karma, Webpack, Sinon and TypeScript and although this is something I still use today, using karma and Webpack might be an…

FFunctional JavaScript - Composition

25.04.2016 — 8 Min Read — In code

Composition is a nice way of reusing existing functions to create new ones. Each of those functions will act on some data that is passed by as an argument, transforming it and then returning it so…

FFunctional JavaScript - An introduction and currying

13.04.2016 — 5 Min Read — In code

There has been a lot of buzz around functional programming lately, sure enough I was catch by the buzz, and here I am sharing some of what I have learned. I won't talk about anything new here, in fact…

LLinting TypeScript with Webpack

07.04.2016 — 3 Min Read — In code

Linters are an excellent way to enforce some structure and to help avoid errors. If you have never used a linter, you're missing on a set of great tools that will assist your team to write better code…

CCreating TypeScript typings for existing React components

31.03.2016 — 3 Min Read — In code

There are a lot of React components available on-line, and if you're using TypeScript with React, it can't sometimes be a little disappointing because many of those components don't have their type…

LLeveraging the power of generics with TypeScript

17.03.2016 — 6 Min Read — In code

If you're new to TypeScript and have never worked with a language such as C#, generics might be something strange to you. But fear not, generics are not that complicated, and we're going to see in a…

HHow to stub promises using Sinon.JS

29.02.2016 — 1 Min Read — In code

Promises are a great way of doing async programming. But testing with promises can be a bit cumbersome, even with the use of the arrow functions syntax. Recently I've found a small and nice package to…

HHow to run tests in parallel using NUnit 3

29.02.2016 — 2 Min Read — In code

Since version 3 of NUnit, it is possible to run tests in parallel. And if you can turn this feature on, you should. The implementation is simple, and you will probably notice a considerable…

AAsync await with ES6/Babel and TypeScript

17.02.2016 — 6 Min Read — In code

Promises are an excellent way of making asynchronous calls, and they're most definitely an improvement over working with only callbacks. Take the following example, calling a URL that returns a movie…

HHow to setup testing using Typescript, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Karma and Webpack

02.02.2016 — 4 Min Read — In code

Sometimes in our field putting together the pieces of the puzzle is a hard task, especially with the always moving forward nature of open source software. So here's how I managed to setup a testing…

FFive great shortcuts for Visual Studio

17.01.2016 — 1 Min Read — In code

I don't know about you, but when I'm coding, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard. I find that reaching for the mouse is disrupting and breaks the flow. So I like my shortcuts. I don't know all of…

UUsing React, Typescript, and Webpack with Visual Studio 2015

11.12.2015 — 7 Min Read — In code

I work with Microsoft technologies in my day job. I do a lot of ASP.NET MVC related stuff, and I wanted to use React with my ASP.NET MVC application, but I wanted to have a nice development…

TTalking about ES15: classes

02.09.2015 — 3 Min Read — In code

Update: I have also recorded a video about classes , if you want to watch it in addition to reading this post. JavaScript has always been an object-oriented language. It never had a class definition…

TTalking about ES15: strings

25.08.2015 — 1 Min Read — In code

There are a few new features related to strings in ES2015. They're easy to learn and they allow for a more clean code. In ES15, some new methods were added to the String object. For instance, now…

TTalking about ES2015: destructuring

19.08.2015 — 12 Min Read — In code

Destructuring is a new feature in ES2015 which allows us to declare or assign values to variables. It's a very powerful way of doing that. It might sound a little confusing at first, but it really is…

TTalking about ES2015: the let and const keywords

16.08.2015 — 4 Min Read — In code

In ES2015 there's a new way to declare variables, it's the let keyword which declares a block scope variable. Block scope variable? What does that mean exactly? Update: I have also recorded a…

IIt's time to upgrade your JavaScript skills

12.08.2015 — 4 Min Read — In code

So, last June, the TC39 Committee {:target=" _ blank"} made EcmaScript 6 a standard. EcmaScript is the official name of the JavaScript language and the new standard is also known as ES6. This is…

IIt's just a mess if you let it. Single responsibility with JavaScript

30.07.2013 — 4 Min Read — In code

Many people who complain about JavaScript does not take the minimum effort to understand the language and for most of the time, the code developed is not treated as a real code, after all, "it's just…

jjQuery Validation Globalization with ASP.NET MVC 3

18.09.2011 — 2 Min Read — In code

ASP.NET MVC 3 has a great feature, which is client validation using jQuery plug-in's jQuery validations and using a Microsoft script the validation is made without the need of any other special code…