Last week I wrote about Promises, a JavaScript feature introduced in ES6. Promises were a great leap forward in the escape from callback… (more…)

A couple of days ago, this question in the Keyboard Maestro forum led me to learn a couple of things about JavaScript. The user, sandbags, wanted a good way to format dates using ordinal numerals instead of plain old digits. In other words, he wanted his ... (more…)

I hosted a dinner party that sparked an app that changed my life and was hailed as “perhaps the surest bet yet to peace in the middle east”... (more…)

How do I enable JavaScript in my browser on a PC? How to enable JavaScript in Chrome ? How to enable JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox ? How to enable JavaScript in Opera? How to enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer? (more…)

A map is one of the most frequently used data structures in daily programming. It keeps key-value pairs that can easily be accessed by their keys. In Java, it is pretty obvious to use a HashMap for… (more…)