Articles tagged “javascript”

• Tricky, tricky dates Any pro­gram­mer who worked with dates would tell that dates are a com­plex sub­ject. Time zones, UTC, day­light sav­ing time, leap years, and, my fa­vorite of all—leap sec­onds that “are not en­tire­ly…
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• Trimming strings Reg­u­lar­ly, I find in­ter­est­ing ques­tions on Stack Over­flow, that look ba­sic at the first sight, but ap­pear to be not that sim­ple af­ter all. To­day, it was a ques­tion on the Russ­ian ver­sion of Stack…
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• This is what you get when you measure lines of code A few months ago, I wrote an ar­ti­cle about a tech­ni­cal leader who mis­un­der­stood how to mea­sure code qual­i­ty. Try­ing to im­prove things, his only achieve­ment was to make every­thing worse, be­cause of the…
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