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JavaScript
How many steps did I walk yesterday: using Cordova, HealthKit, and JavaScript, and a handful of Promises
As people who know me might know I have been playing around with various wearables for some years now, starting…
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Python
Python: Find the highest value in a group
In my continued playing around with a How I met your mother data set I needed to find out the…
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ASP.NET
Real-Time Website Data Using SignalR
When I was tasked with using SignalR to implement the real-time updating of data on a project I was working…
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Web Dev
Render Markdown in Rails with Redcarpet and SmartyPants
Rendering Markdown in your Rails app is pretty simple, thanks to the Redcarpet gem. We’ll set up a helper to…
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JavaScript
JavaScript Closures: Pass parameters to callbacks
Many JavaScript libraries allow to define callbacks. We often need to pass various parameters oder some context from outside to…
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Angular.js
Understanding Providers, Services, and Factories in Angular
I’ve read quite a few posts (as well as questions posed) about the differences between services and factories in Angular.…
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Angular.js
Learning Angular: Access directive scope variables from directive controllers and vice versa
Angular directives can have a separate, isolated scope, which is even the suggested approach most of the time. And they…
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Node.js
Improve Node.js Performance by Turning It into a Clusterfork
One of the big reasons people are drawn to Node.js for running web servers is the simplicity you gain from…
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Python
The Genius of Python’s Self
When I first started learning python and read about how they do class methods, I was a bit thrown off.…
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