Tag: javascript

A parent at a recent meeting I was attending lamented that her child’s school no longer taught coding. I was blessed that my high school offered classes in programming back in 1973. I wrote about that six years ago on this blog. Today, I’d like to offer some suggestions to that parent and to any […]

Cross-platform technologies are popular right now. Microsoft seems to be embracing non-Windows OSes—e.g. porting flagship projects such as .NET and SQL Server to Linux/macOS. Most of this activity is around server and mobile technologies. Windows still has a commanding share—89% in 2016)—of the desktop, with macOS on just under 10% of desktops in the same […]

Facebook recently released an alternative to Node Package Manager (npm). It’s called Yarn and, according to the developers, is designed to improve on npm in the following areas: Speed Determinism Security Let’s examine each of these claims in more detail. 1. Speed Yarn claims to be a faster than npm. I ran a test where I […]

I was in New York recently teaching my ASP.NET Web Forms class while one of my colleagues was teaching my jQuery class a couple of doors away. One of the students in the jQuery class asked an interesting question, and since another instructor – Randy Casburn – was sitting in the back of the room, […]

In my last post I showed how easy it was to add a Google map to a Web page. This time, I want to look at how you can customize the map by adding markers to it, as well as using data binding to build the script dynamically. The application I’m using provides restaurant recommendations […]