In this episode: David and Todd discuss the best holiday every: National Cheeseburger Day. After the salivation ended, David and Todd welcome Kyle Simpson, aka getify, to the show. Kyle's a well known JavaScript super hero so we jumped on a variety of topics: the JavaScript spec, the good old days of JavaScript frameworks, conferences, teaching JavaScript, blockchain, and a handful of Kyle's new projects. Enjoy!
The HTML5 revolution has provided us some awesome JavaScript and HTML APIs. Some are APIs we knew we've needed for years, others are cutting edge mobile and desktop helpers. Regardless of API strength or purpose, anything to help us better do our job is a...
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...
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