George Jempty articles - 32 total
Why can't AUTOMATIC post throttling be instituted for new accounts
I hadn't posted anything in 3 months until today, AND IT WAS THE SAME THING ALL OVER AGAIN. When I w...
First SO Go Question 😜
Have been working with Go for a few weeks now and have finally posted a question to Stack-overflow....
Two ways to determine if any arrays in an object has an entry
let pendingAdditions = { hospitals: ['Silencio Hospital','St Judes'], licenses: ['poe-tic license...
Javascript: When Less is More
NOTE: I have added the regex tag based on help I got on Stackoverflow in the few hours since writin...
Find the Easter Egg in my Resume's "Summary/Skills" Header Section
A post by George Jempty
Implementing Javascript Objects with Multi-part Keys
If you've done Javascript development for any period of time, you've likely encountered a situation w...
2020 Things Every Dev Must Know for 2020
The same 2020 things you should have known on Dec. 31 2019
Grouping Related Methods Together in an Object in Vue
tl;dr: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59614452/34806 When first working with AngularJS about 6 years ag...
Where can I find a list of *all* dev.to's tags
Maybe I'm over-looking something obvious, but when I search I only find the page with the top 100 tag...
dev.to posts tagged 'beginners' considered harmful
About 10 years ago I made my transition from full-stack web developer (though the term wasn't in use...
Hexadecimal addition in a MAC address context
I don't answer a lot of StackOverflow questions any more, they are mostly so specialized, or when the...
LinusBorg's (nor Other Expert's) Advice Not to be Followed Blindly
I started working with Vue.js in 2017, and based on the profile I used at the time I see I posted thr...
Members Abusing Tags
I'm going to keep this short and sweet. Anybody else notice people abusing tags? By which I mean, t...
Using a Lodash Module Function in a Vue Template
Today when first doing something in an un-Vue like manner, I discovered a neat little trick. In a te...
Quick and Dirty Aspect Oriented (AOP) Javascript with a Couple Dozen Lines of Code
Aspect oriented programming (AOP): everybody's talking about and nobody's doing it. Actually, nobody...
Can a Binary Search Guessing Game Predict if You can Code?
I've created a site with a binary search guessing game here. In the interest of self-disclosure I'm...
Regex Bootcamp (or Nobody Seems to be Using HTML5 Validation)
In this post I will be referring back to simplified versions of my regex's (regular expressions) from...
Form Validation, You're Doing it Wrong, Part Two
This is a follow-on to yesterday's post of mine. Again I will be referring to the same excellent art...
Form Validation: You're (likely) doing it wrong
First of all, run, don't walk, and read the following about "Usability Testing of Inline Form Validat...
Just got my CodeMentor profile approved, which reminds me....
I just got my CodeMentor profile approved and this reminded me of the first job I ever enjoyed. But...
The Pro's and Pro's of Javascript String Templates
Yep, you read it right, the Pro's and Pro's (not Con's). This morning I committed code containing a...
2.5 months "on the bench"
The last 3 of 4 tags for this articles are misleading; this is about lack of all of those. Since I s...
Not Your Everyday Commit Message
I'm working on a website for my friend's beach rental business. On his FB page I found what appeared...
A Month (Actually 2.5 Weeks) of My Life on Github
Exercising my github foo
A Day, no, not Even an Hour, of Life on Stack Overflow
I've been a Stack Overflow user from since a few months of its launch, and have seen a lot of changes...
Blockchain for Blithering Idiots
What's Old is New Again
Why ReactJS is a Framework, not a Library
If ReactJS lets you program declaratively, it *must* be a framework
Accidentally Declarative
An Approach for Mapping Input Field Values to/from JSON
hasOwnProperty considered harmful
hasOwnProperty is often unnecessary and performs poorly
Luck in Software Development, Part 2
Software Development isn't purely about skill