I am making a little excursion into the WCF land: I need to control my Windows Service from my ASP.NET server. While experimenting, I found that new NamedPipeBinding(NetNamedPipeSecurityMode.None) on the […]
In ECMA Script 6 toString() function can throw an exception. This makes generating debug output a treacherous minefield. In all other languages I know toString() on built-in objects is safe, and […]
…Continued from Part 1. Arrow functions ES6 introduces arrow functions, which can take several forms: Besides being a shorter notation for function(), arrow functions have special rule for this. They […]
Java language specification defines “this” keyword in one sentence. EcmaScript 6 definition of “this” is about a page of pseudo-code spread over several paragraphs, and there is a good reason […]
TL;DR When building a Visual Studio solution on a build server, make sure that directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework contains reference assemblies for ALL .NET versions targeted by your projects. […]
The forth place in the JavaScript WTF competition goes to the amazingly large number of ways to represent lack of value. Most C-like languages have keyword null that means “no […]
In the last few days I did some formal reading and informal experimenting with EcmaScript6, and compiled the list of its most annoying “features”. The fifth place goes to complete […]
I was playing with some Javascript in Visual Studio, and I found that it gets annoyingly reformatted every time I end a statement or a block. Visual Studio formatting options […]
I was installing some web stuff using npm, and noticed that it takes a lot of time on my home computer compared to my work computer. It turned out that […]
I thought that JavaScript arrow functions are just a shorthand notation for regular functions. I was wrong, and I found it the hard way. Arrow function treat ‘this’ keyword differently. […]
