Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

NPM developer qix's account compromise potentially puts user funds at risk by compromising library dependencies used by ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

Earlier this week, the Npm package manager suffered what may be its worst security incident to date. Unknown cybercriminals ...

Today at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company announced some improvements to Excel during the keynote. They were kind of glossed over, but during a session later on in the day, it expanded ...

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to ...

Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom ...

A JavaScript supply chain attack has delivered a crypto-clipper via 18 npm packages; Ledger’s CTO has warned ...