Compose From First Principles
Thousands of Developers from around the world attended Google I/O 2019 earlier this month. It was a particularly exciting I/O for me, as it was the fi...
Leland Richardson
Personal blog of Leland Richardson.
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Previously Google, Airbnb.
I like learning, discussing, and diving into challenges.
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Content on Declarative UI
If you haven't yet watched the [session on Declarative UI Patterns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsStyq4Lzxo), you should do that now. It is a prop...
One Concern, One File
Most of us are aware of the notion of having a "Separation of Concerns". It's one of the holy truths of computer science. An unbreakable law: somethin...
Making React.js and Knockout.js Play Nice
Choosing a JavaScript framework or library to build a project with is a complicated choice, these days. There's just so much to choose from. There's t...
Custom Lucene Tokenizer for Tech Keywords
In the world of search and text indexing, Lucene is perhaps the most pervasive implementation. These days many developers opt to use technology that u...
Clever way to "demethodize" Native JS Methods
Recently I wrote a blog: [Functional JavaScript, Part 3: .apply(), .call(), and the arguments object](/functional-javascript-part-3-apply-call-and-the...
Functional JavaScript, Part 4: Function Currying
In an earlier post we [played around with function currying](/functional-javascript-part-2-what-makes-a-language-functional#functions_can_return_funct...
Functional JavaScript, Part 3: apply, call, and the arguments object
We are on a quest to bend and twist JavaScript in such a way that we can do some real functional programming. In order to do that, understanding funct...
Functional JavaScript, Part 2: What Makes a Language Functional?
There is no magic formula for what makes a language "functional" or not. There seem to be languages that are clearly functional, while there are other...
Functional JavaScript, Part 1: Introduction
JavaScript is a powerful, but misunderstood language. People like to say that it _is_ an object oriented programming language, or that it _is_ a funct...
Creating a Dictionary<T,V> which doesn't throw a KeyNotFoundException
I find it interesting when there are certain tasks in one language which feel simple, fluid, and elegant to write, when in another language they feel...
A Better Query Language: BQL Language Specification
For some reason or another, it seems to me that SQL has always taken a back seat in the language economy. I have used SQL for years, and very little h...
Handling Paged Datasets in Knockout.js
[KnockoutJS][1] provides the plumbing to create very powerful web applications, but leaves most of the logic up to the developer. That's great, and I...
Lukemapper: A Super Fast ORM for Lucene.net
Lucene is a document storage search engine library that utilizes inverted indexes and has great capabilities. It has been very popular and has been po...
3 Tricks to get More out of SQL Server in Common Web Scenarios
Learn several little-known SQL tricks/techniques used to improve query times and enforce business rules with common everyday web-development scenarios...