JavaScript
Go away node/npm
If you haven’t found a use for this script that uninstalls the second largest junk in the world next to Mac/iOS updates, you are either lazy or scared of breaking things. I am neither, so I polished this script from the different versions you will find on the internet. Oh, I am talking about node/npm.
Happy cleaning!
More ...A Paradox of Braces
A great deal of thought goes into language design. Eric Lippert’s posts is a living testament, at least for C#. Syntax and idioms are also part of the language design. When designing a language, the designers have to also consider its future. For instance, when designing C#, Anders and others should have thought of and planned for what’s coming in then upcoming version(s) of C#. Such level of forethought might be seem daunting for an outsider. But the language designers are good at what they do, and most importantly, they know what they are doing. Well, in most cases! More ...
Overloading vs Variable Arguments !!!
In a statically typed (object oriented?) language, function overloading offers the facility of organizing your code into two or more functions with different types and/or number of arguments. This is highly useful when the functionality offered by the function can be invoked in different scenarios. For instance, let us consider the function(s) below: More ...
jqGrid: Handling array data !!!
This post is primarily a personal reference. I also consider this a tribute to Oleg, who played a big role in improving my understanding of the jqGrid internals – the way it handles source data types, which, if I may say, led him in discovering a bug in jqGrid. More ...
