Avoid Console Logging in Production

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You probably have your JavaScript code littered with console.log(“blah blah blah”) statements throughout your code to test functionality and verify data. In production, you probably don’t want these statements written out for non-developers to see, so overwrite the window.console.log function with your own blank function that will get called instead.

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Blog Post Reading Words Per Minute

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On many new blog and news sites, sorry not my blog, they have a ‘how long does this article take to read’ feature. This recently came up on an internal experiment and thought it would be fun to share the results. From readingsoft.com If top readers read at speeds of above 1000 words per minute (wpm) with near 85% comprehension,…

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JavaScript – Replace Only Replaces First Occurence

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It’s awkward to find out that the the string.replace(targetString, replaceWith) function in JavaScript doesn’t act like it does in most other modern programming languages. JavaScript will only find the first instance of the target string and replace it. It will not continue to find other instances of the targeted string and replace it. Java/.Net/etc. will search for all occurrences of…

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