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My Talk At Devsum 2016 And Some Interesting JavaScript Links

Hi! Last week was intense!! I came back from spending a greeeeat long week in New York, powered through jet lag and a nasty cold and did my talk at Devsum 2016 about the mysterious, arcane and obscure art of JavaScript-mancy!

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It was a ton of fun as usual. The conference was awesome, the organizers did a great job, everything ran super smoothly, the speakers were very kind and great to hang out with, the attendees were engaged and great to have a random conversation with here and there, and the people at Active Solution were a blast to be around. So thank you everyone for making it happen!

I think my talk went pretty well although perhaps there was a little bit too much information and speed towards the end. You’ll be able to be the judge of that because there’s going to be a recording coming out in the near future (which I am looking forward to watching myself by the way hehe).

Anyhow, here are my slides and a bunch of useful links that serve as a superb companion for the presentation.

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Argument Destructuring and Type Annotations in TypeScript

I often use destructuring in ES6 when I want to have a function with an options object. I described options objects in ”More useful function patterns - function overloading as a way to achieve function overloading in JavaScript with the added benefits of named arguments and extensibility.

Recently I was trying to use the same pattern in TypeScript adding some type annotations but it did not work! If you have had the same issue yourself read through to find out how to solve it.

A Screenshot of me testing destructuring in TypeScript
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A look at ES6 Sets

The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.

A Set is a data structure that represents a distinct collection of items in which each item is unique and only appears once. If you have been working with JavaScript for a little while chances are that you have need to roll your own implementation of a Set. Well, you’ll need to do that no longer beause ES6 comes with a native Set implementation.

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A Super Quick Summary of the NgConf 2016 Keynote on Angular 2

Yesterday was the first day at ngconf 2016 with great announcements for Angular 2 and a lot of great talks all available for you to see and enjoy right now on youtube.

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I thought it would be nice to write a quick summary with some bullet points including the most interesting announcements from the keynote in case you don’t have 1 hour free to watch it yourself but can invest 2 minutes in reading an article.

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Making a Game With Rx.js and Web Speech at Active Dublin 2016 - Part III

In the previous articles of this series we have been building a game using Rx.js and Web Speech. We have followed, more or less, the same steps I took while I was at the JavaScript Wizardry contest at Active Solution Spring conference in Dublin.

If you have missed any of the previous articles don’t hesitate to go back and take a look from the beginning!

In this final issue we will complete our game by adding some excitement through the possibility of dying. We will also make the game more visually appealing with some styles and graphics, experiment with the Web Speech Synthesis API and we’ll wrap it up with a small reflection about the whole experience.

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