In the first chapter of The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, the authors describe a set of related systems named L-systems after one of the authors, Lindenmayer. Using simple production rules,…
It’s quite well known that list comprehensions exists in many programming languages. This is kind of true for JavaScript, but only with a detour. For instance, in Python3 we can…
— An evil strategy to make JavaScript more functional As of ES6, we’re used to Array methods such as map, filter, and reduce. Methods borrowed from functional programming languages. I’ve…
I love doing side-projects. But I sometimes think of side-projects as a guilty pleasure, since I almost never finish them, and because most of them are utterly useless. For instance,…
The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a welcome contribution to the “Infrastructure as Code” family. It is a development framework that allows you to configure AWS resources using programming…
During React Conf in Las Vegas this year Brian Vaughn, a member of the React JS-core team at Facebook, announced some of the new features and additions to React developer…
I have spent some time working with the AWS Elasticsearch Service lately. Regrettably, I found the threshold before being productive was higher than I anticipated. One of my obstacles was…
On my most recent assignment I was faced with the challenge of downloading a pdf file from an API and displaying it in the browser. Normally, the API would provide a json-object…
Since Jayway sponsored ngVikings 2017 I got the opportunity to attend "The main Angular conference in the Nordics", which was a delight. The venue was the main hall of the…
During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…
TypeScript makes us .NET developers comfortable with JavaScript. When you come from c#, coding JavaScript feels like walking on a tightrope without a safety net. With TypeScript comes a typesystem, a compiler…
This year we are three developers representing Jayway at Microsofts Build conference. This blog-post summarizes just some of the stuff we’ve seen on day two of the conference. Microsoft Cognitive…
This year we are three developers representing Jayway at Microsofts Build conference. This blog-post summarizes just some of the stuff we've seen on day one of the conference. Cross-Platform Mobile…
This is a follow up post on Using Roslyn to build a simple C# interactive script engine In this post I will explore the possibilities of making a REPL as…
AWS Lambda enables you to quickly setup a backend solution for your mobile application. AWS CloudFormation allows you to create templates for your infrastructure that can be versioned controlled. When…