joepie91

The One Secret Trick To Becoming A Genius Programmer

Okay, the title of this post is a bit of a lie. There's no one secret trick to becoming a genius programmer - there are two, and they're more habits than tricks. Nevertheless, these kind of 'secret tricks' seem to resonate with people, so I went for this title anyway.

Every once in a while, a somewhat strange thing happens to me. I'll be helping somebody out on IRC - usually a beginner - answering a number of their questions in rapid succession, about a variety of topics. Then after a while, they call me a "genius" for being able to answer everything they're asking; either directly, or while talking about me to somebody else.

Now, I don't really agree with this "genius" characterization, and it can make me feel a bit awkward, but it shows that a lot of developers have a somewhat idealistic and nebulous notion of the "genius programmer" - the programmer that knows everything, who can do everything, who's never stumped by a problem, and of which ther

joepie91

By the way, I'm available for tutoring and code review :)

Table of contents

1. What Promises library should I use?
2. How do I create a Promise myself?
3. How do I use new Promise?
4. How do I resolve a Promise?
5. But what if I want to resolve a synchronous result or error?
6. [But what if it's at the start of a chain, and I'm not in a .then callback yet?](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/4c3a10629a4263a522e3bc4839a28c83#6-but

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

philfreo

// Method 1: simply use Highcharts built-in functionality (SVG -> Highcharts server -> PNG)
// Downside: won't work in webview native apps that don't handle the form response
highcharts.exportChart({
    filename: filename
});