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 ...

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 ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

Before we go further, it is important to note that this is just a proof of concept and to even use custom functions in Excel, you first need to be using the Office Insider version of Excel and to ...

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In a previous column, I showed how to create a "Hello, World" application that integrated JavaScript functions and C# Blazor methods. However, my Blazor-world and JavaScript-world code didn't interact ...

‘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” ...

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 ...

Learn how to make the most of Observable JavaScript and the Observable Plot library, including a step-by-step guide to eight basic data visualization tasks in Plot. Built-in reactivity is one of ...