GoodReads Summary: The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the ability to use HTML and JavaScript to create Windows Store apps, has made JavaScript a vital part of the Windows development ecosystem. Microsoft has done extensive work to make JavaScript easier to use. Microsoft's TypeScript extends many familiar features of .NET programming to JavaScript. With TypeScript Succinctly by Steve Fenton, you will learn how TypeScript provides optional static typing and classes to JavaScript development, how to create and load modules, and how to work with existing JavaScript libraries through ambient declarations. TypeScript is even significantly integrated with Visual Studio to provide the autocompletion and type checking you are most comfortable with.

GoodReads Summary: About This Book Learn a powerful approach to writing object-oriented JavaScript code using ES6 Create and use ES6 modules to learn to write smart, modularized JavaScript code The book will take you step-by-step through a wide array of examples, giving you tips on how to make the best use of the latest ES6 features Who This Book Is For

GoodReads Summary: Key Features Create hybrid mobile applications by combining the capabilities of Ionic, Cordova, and AngularJS Reduce the time to market your application using Ionic, that helps in rapid application development Detailed code examples and explanations, helping you get up and running with Ionic quickly and easily Book Description

A rebuttal to "Dear Github".

GoodReads Summary: This cookbook is for beginners or intermediate Linux users who want to master writing Bash shell scripts. Intermediate/advanced users, system administrators, developers, and programmers can use it as a reference when they face problems while coding. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that beginners can read it from start to end while advanced users can just open it at any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference. It covers most of the commands on Linux with a variety of use cases accompanied by plenty of examples and guides you on implementing some of the commonest Linux commands with recipes that handle operations or properties related to files like searching and mining inside a file with grep. It also shows how utilities like sed, awk, grep, and cut can be combined to solve text processing problems. The focus is on saving time by automating activities with a few lines of script.

Using the example Couchbase to show how REST works.

When the culture goes against agile.

Found a piece of code I wrote 2 years ago, following a lot of linters. I'm amazed how readable the code still is.

GoodReads Summary: Create scalable and reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries using the concepts of object-oriented programming. This book is for the beginning to intermediate web developer who wants to solve web development problems with smart JavaScript. It does not assume any prior knowledge of JavaScript programming; however even if you already know some JavaScript, there will be plenty for you to learn here.

GoodReads Summary: How did a 75-year old actor from Star Trek become a social media juggernaut? Why does everything he posts spread like wildfire across the ether, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of likes and shares? And what can other sites, celebrities and companies do to attain his stratospheric engagement levels, which hover or top 100 percent while theirs languish in the single digits?