Javascript – Promises
OVERVIEW Promises are a way of handling asynchronous events in javascript. Prior to promises, the only true asynchronous feature was in XMLHttpRequest where ajax calls […]
Javascript/Jquery
Javascript – Destructuring
OVERVIEW Destructuring is a feature which allows us to unpack values from arrays or properties from objects without having to write statements for them. In […]
Javascript Arrow function
OVERVIEW The arrow function acts somewhat like the lamdba expression in Java. It allows you to define functions in a shorthand syntax. The sample code […]
Javascript – Spread Operator
OVERVIEW The Spread operator is a little-known operator which allows you to join arrays together. This might sound similar to the join() function but the […]
Javascript – String Interpolation
OVERVIEW An alternative to using string concatenation is to use string interpolation. String interpolation allows us to put variables in the string value which are […]
Javascript – let, var and const
OVERVIEW There are some small but important differences between using var, let and const: A var can be re-declared and reassigned different values. Let variables […]
Geocoding An Address With Google Maps API
OVERVIEW One of the most useful features of Google Maps its ability to locate an address on the map. Geocoding is the process of taking […]
A Speech Translation mashup in less than 5 hours
The Web Speech API is a little known framework, which has been developed by Google a couple of years back. It is a very good […]
IE version detection in Javascript
Detection of the newer versions of IE is much more messy than before. Since IE uses the Trident rendering engine, each IE version uses a […]
JQuery issue in removing items in a dropdown
If you have a very large dropdown in an html page – say a few thousand items, and you want to clear all of them, […]