You should usually use each of the basic web technologies for their main purposes: HTML for the markup, CSS for the styles and JavaScript for additional interactivity. But sometimes, those things cross into each other. There might be cases, in … Read more →
In the blog post 8 days ago with the title “Dynamic parameters in JavaScript“, I have shown you how functions with a variable number of parameters work. Today, I want to talk about the “tagged templates” feature in JavaScript, as … Read more →
If you only ever deal with English strings in your code, you can stop reading now. Unless you are curious and want to learn something new, then please stay. 😉 In languages like German, we have characters that don’t exist … Read more →
Many programming languages have this. Instead of defining all parameters for a function, you can pass any number of parameters into a function and then work with them. Functions with static parameters Before we get into dynamic parameters, let us … Read more →
In the very first advent calendar blog post this year, I’ve shown you how to “Getting started with JavaScript debugging“. Today, I want to show some more advanced techniques you can use to debug your code. Different logging types In … Read more →
More than 9 years ago, I wrote a (German only) blog post about how to “improve JavaScript with scroll event handlers”. Back in the days, people would use a plugin like “WP-Smooth-Scroll” (it’s still around, but hasn’t been updated in … Read more →
You might now ask yourself: What?! That was also my first reaction, when I’ve heard about labeled statements. So what are they, and when can they be used? Are they goto statements? Many programming languages have goto statements. Some programming … Read more →
No, I’m not going to start a video channel on this topic. But I want to show you some things about numbers, you might not have known before. The answer, however, as we all know, is 42. Types of numbers … Read more →
It’s that time of the year again. Some of you just celebrated Thanksgiving, while the rest of the world only “celebrated” Black Friday. But I’m speaking about the 24 days before Christmas. Starting in 2015, I’ve set myself the goal … Read more →
As mentioned in my last blog post, I have a little bonus topic to the maps series. In the previous post, we have created a map with Leaflet in JavaScript. The map visualized the capital cities of all German states. … Read more →