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PostgreSQL – String To Rows

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…

By Chris West, ago
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Escape & Unescape – Deprecated?

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…

By Chris West, ago
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Function Overloading in JavaScript

Method overloading is one of the nice things that exists in real programming languages such as Java. Even though JavaScript starts with “Java”, there are very few similarities between the two languages. Still, due to the power of the scripting language, there is a way to overload functions. The most Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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Private Variables In JavaScript

Often times, many people have made claims that it is not possible to make variables private in JavaScript. I am here to tell you that those people are wrong. There are many implementations from JavaScript guru’s such as Douglas Crockford explaining how to do this. Although these implementations will get Read more…

By Chris West, ago