Anything more extensive or complex than a few thousand lines of code becomes excruciatingly slow to compile by the TypeScript compiler. A large project worked upon by a large development team will soon discover that the TypeScript compiler itself is a massive productivity bottleneck. Continue reading TypeScript is a productivity problem in and of itself
In the past three years, I have been doing more and more of my work in Golang. If I had to pick a language for backend microservice development (which is where 99% of my career has been), I would now gladly choose Go. Continue reading What programming language to use for a brand new project?
Since Trump’s Twitter account is such a great source of his stream of consciousness, his sentences so grammatically incorrect, and his speeches are so incoherent that it is very simple to write a program that will talk, write, and speak exactly like Donald Trump. Continue reading Using Markov Chain Generator to create Donald Trump’s state of union speech
In software development, nothing exemplifies an institutionalized system of religious attitudes, causes, beliefs and practices held with ardor and faith as JavaScript and Node.js. Continue reading The religion of JavaScript
In a July 2017 article, Node.js Foundation surveyed developers around the world asking them how they use Node.js. As it turns out, Node.js is taking over the world of business applications and the enterprise by storm and is rapidly supplanting platforms like Java which has to do with a few factors. JavaScript Node.js is a JavaScript platform. JavaScript is a simple language that in and … Continue reading Node.js is a perfect enterprise application platform
This article was originally published on my blog at Computerworld on Jan 20th, 2016 Since my last post, I had an opportunity at work to take over the responsibilities over a couple of web apps. I also implemented one from scratch. I spent the last 15 years working with Java. The last time I had anything to do with JavaScript was over a decade ago. … Continue reading JavaScript as the language of the cloud
There is a perception among many in the software industry that JavaScript is simpler to learn and use than, say, Java. I’ve even heard some say that JavaScript developers are easier to recruit. Somehow there is a perception of #javascript simplicity when in reality it is arguable as complex as C #callbackhell https://t.co/WAxbBaIxO9 — Oleg Dulin (@olegdulin) July 10, 2015 While there are many myths … Continue reading The Three Myths About JavaScript Simplicity
I needed a sandbox where I could experiment with Heroku, Node, JavaScript, and Angular and so I created a little suite of apps that I call “Oleg’s Utilities“. For now it is just a date calculator that my wife told me would be useful to her, but I’ll add more. A few observations: I am not an experienced web developer, but I went through Angular and … Continue reading Oleg’s Utilities : Exploring Node, Angular and Heroku
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