Course’s review: Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Six weeks ago I enrolled in Functional Programming Principles in Scala on Coursera, and today I submitted the last assignment: it looks like I started yesterday, while one month and a half…
Talk with Rob Eisenberg
On Wednesday the 11th May I had the opportunity to attend to a great event hosted by Betsson Group in Malta: a presentation of Aurelia from its creator Rob Eisenberg! As opposite to standard…
Integrating Elm in an existing JS App
I found an awesome tutorial on the Internet from NoRedInk about the interoperability on Elm with Javascript and I decided to do it: introducing elm to a js web app. The tutorial As is stated…
Observables: sharing is caring
TL; TR Observables are a new powerful add-on of Angular 2. Since they can be shared and messages are mutable, never modify a message because the action will affect other consumers. The…
A day with Angular 2
Before you read On last Thursday I had the gorgeous possibility to try out Angular 2 at work, and I started as usually with the simplest tutorial on their page: Angular 5…
Exceptions in Angular Promises
Working with Angular Promises you might want to avoid the Deferred antipattern, which involves the creation of a second deferred object to manage resolve and rejection events. At the same time, you…
Bash, TMUX, Vim survival kit
Hi there, from the second day I moved to my new job in Malta and I had to use Windows I realized that after five years spent using just Linux and OSX full…
Take care of your typesystem
TL;TR TypeScript is based on duck typing: even if you build a nested tree of types it will try to match them based on raw properties rather than variance. The domain Let’s define two…
Demystifying the 3DWeb: slides and video
It took a while but eventually I found the time to upload the recording of the talk, polish a bit the repository of the slides and export them to PDF: now I’m…
JS vs JSON: stringify clarifyied
The JSON.stringify function You know you can use JSON.stringify with an object to get the string. Like: [crayon-5b73a28987f23763765533/] The API is able to identify illegal JSON values (like functions) and discard them…