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For the last six months, I have been working a project that exclusively uses CoffeeScript for both the front end and back end. That being said, I have had a lot of CoffeeScript on my mind lately! This blog post will examine some of the pros and cons related to features of CoffeeScript and, hopefully, provide insight into whether CoffeeScript ...

I was on a project recently where the team was faced with a daunting list of scheduling-related backlog stories. When looking at the entire feature, about 20% of these stories dealt with custom functionality and 80% of them dealt with issues that are common to any scheduling or calendar application: start times, end times, visibility/privacy, conflicts, notifications, etc etc. When I asked ...

As you may already know web components consist out of a set of technologies which are combined to create a custom element for use in your HTML markup. The main additions, as described in several blogposts, are HTML imports, Shadow Dom and Templates combined with isolated scripts and styling. (If these concepts are new to you i suggest you read up ...

History look The first applications were running on “the” computer. There was nothing like “client” and “server”. There was the computer and the punch card input, printer output. Later the mainframe came and the clients were terminals. Looking back, we can say that this was a two tier architecture with lightweight clients. This was practically the same with the mini ...

Now that Angular 1.3 has been officially released, I thought I would talk about some of the new features that developers would like to know, to include: Performance improvements One-time bindings ngModel.$validators ngMessages ngModelOptions If you are still using IE 8 as your main browser, first I want to say WHY? Angular 1.3 is dropping support for this old browser. ...

As different countries use different date format, the need to format them differently now has a solution in almost all programming languages and frameworks. Some of them use special functions, some others use dedicated libraries, and some just leave you to their syntax and your imagination. Let’s see what JavaScript provides for those of us in dire need to format ...

This post shows how you can improve performance of your Ext JS applications by using a “Caching AJAX Proxy”. This proxy saves URL responses to HTML5 Web Storage (e.g. session storage or local storage), which means that when the same URL is requested multiple times, a cached response is returned, instead of sending a request to the server each time. ...

Here at Web Code Geeks we know how much you love books about programming; we are geeks ourselves. After all, a programmer that respects himself should always have his face in a book, he has to keep up with the latest technologies and developments. For this reason, we have decided to distribute 9 of our books for free. You can ...

I am not going to highlight pros of promises and cons of callbacks. There is plenty of good reading about this topic out there. I was recently writing simple Node module and decided to learn promises during its implementation. The result  can be interesting as comparison of Promises vs Callbacks approach applied to the same problems, because project contains Two ...