Most people that have written JavaScript realize that the and operator is && and the or operator is ||. Did you know, though, that these operators are short-circuit operators? Did you know that these operators don’t make the expression evaluate to a boolean per se? Short-Circuit Operators When someone says Read more…
I apologize for not writing any posts in the past few weeks, but I promise I was working hard on something big. Besides the normal work at work and my friend’s wedding, I have also been hard at work on the next version of jPaq. I still have more coding Read more…
Click here to see the original POW. One question that you could ask is “Does da mean yes?” If da actually does mean yes, it would be equivalent to asking, “Does yes mean yes?” In this case True would say da (which means yes) while False would say su (which Read more…
After reviewing this page, I realized that I need to fix some of the ways that jPaq converts wildcard expressions into regular expressions. The first thing I need to do is have the @ character act as a meta-character equivalent to the + meta-character in a regular expression. The next Read more…
One of the things I had to study up on while creating jPaq was regular expressions. The reason for this is because I wanted a way for those who know how to use wildcard expressions, but not regular expressions, to be able to use equivalent regular expressions. One of the Read more…
Working Solution – Custom Function I have to say that using PostgreSQL has been great compared to MySQL. Recently, though, I ran into an issue while working with iReports designer. I needed to be able to accept a string of comma-delimited integers and then JOIN on those ID’s. Therefore, I Read more…
Two of the most widely used JavaScript functions that are now deprecated are the escape() and unescape() functions. This means that in order to ensure that your code will continue to work in all future browsers, you should use one of the alternative functions as was indicated on MDN: encodeURI() Read more…
This Problem of the Week is a logic problem. It is based off of a famous puzzle which is world renowned. As usual, the answer to this question will not be revealed until Sunday at 12:00 AM EST. The answer can be found here. Problem of the Week You are Read more…
Click here to see the original POW. The following is how you could get everyone across in 17 minutes: Person A (1 minute) and person B (2 minutes) go across to the target side with the flashlight in 2 minutes. Person B (2 minute) comes back across the bridge with Read more…
One of the things that Excel is missing is a way of joining a range of cell values with a common delimiter such as a comma. Here is an example of a range of cells that would be nice to be able to join together with a comma: A B Read more…