Coffeescript gotchas (part 3): Switch statement and loops
Welcome to the third part of Coffeescript gotchas. If you haven’t yet read the first and second part of the series I strongly recommend to have a look. The main topic today is loops plus the switch...
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This is the fourth and final part of the CoffeeScript gotchas series. On this part I’ll demonstrate Coffeescript’s syntactic sugar on Objects, constructors and classes! Ready, set, go… Update: Table of...
View ArticleAvoid CoffeeScript & use ES6!
Those of you that follow my blog might have noticed how fond I am to some of CoffeeScript’s conveniences. They are excellent, but it’s time to leave them behind and start using ES6. Most of...
View ArticleRuby tips
I just read the Ruby Pocket Reference, a great intro for the Ruby language and want to share a few helpful Ruby tips learned. Parallel assignment of variables In Ruby, you can assign several values to...
View ArticleRuby Hash iteration with index
Ruby Hash (and Array) includes the Enumerable module (mixin), which provides a lot of neat, but also slightly hidden in the documentation, methods. This means that despite the poor advertising you can...
View ArticleGreek in Tech
Greek in Tech is my latest side project and is finally live! As you can see, it’s a very simple single-page application (SPA) that displays greek words we use in technology. Github pages is...
View ArticleExtending Class methods with Module Mixins
I’m about to finish the Eloquent Ruby book (excellent book by the way) and keep finding ruby pearls of wisdom. One of these is that you can actually use module mixins to extend class methods! You only...
View ArticleReact Boilerplate
Hi all, after the very successful Gulp boilerplate for web designers and Grunt boilerplate for web designers, I’m very pleased to announce my React boilerplate (it’s as designers friendly as it can...
View ArticleMy first npm module
Finally, I found the time to update the Greek in Tech site and create my very first npm package! The idea was to extract all the entries from the backbone single page application, create a very simple...
View ArticleRepocompare.io
Repocompare.io is my latest pet project! With this single page application (SPA) you can quickly and easily search and compare Github repositories. If you need a quick and elegant way to compare...
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