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JavaScript scope in functions vs Java scope in methods

For years, JavaScript to me was a mere validation tool or script for web applications. I hated it. I avoided using it. This time JavaScript gets the same respect from me as Java does. If you plan to “own” (or master if you can) JavaScript and you are coming from blocked-scoped languages like Java, C#, C and C++, this is one of key things you need to keep in mind…

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Working with Reference Types in JavaScript

JavaScript has both primitive and reference types. It has three primitive types: string, numeric, and boolean. Internally, these are small and fixed-sized collection of bytes that are easily and predictably manipulated at the low (primitive) levels of the JavaScript interpreter. Example of strings are ‘This is a string’ and “This is another string”. Numeric values – 1, and 3.1416. Boolean values – true or false. On the other hand, reference types are different. They include objects (including JS built-in objects), Arrays, and functions. Essentially, they can have any number of properties or elements with various types (both primitives and references), so they cannot be manipulated as easily as fixed-size primitive v

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Type Checking in JavaScript

Okay, JavaScript is a loosely-typed language, which means you do not declare the data type of a variable explicitly. In a basic variable assignment expression, e.g., var i = 4;, the value that assigns to the variable determines the data type of the variable. As you assign different types of data to the same variable, its data type changes as well. Given the nature of JavaScript, finding out what data type a variable represents before using it is very important.

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Reuse JPA entity classes from a Jar file

Background [wp_ad_camp_1] Let’s say you had your application in one single Maven project as a prototype and decided to finalize the functionality into a finished (or almost, e.g., Alpha or Beta version) product. When you have JPA entities and you

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Return class’ Canonical Name in PHP

Background [wp_ad_camp_1] There are times you need to refer to a class by a string representing its fully qualified class name. For example in Laravel 4.2, you may specify a route to a controller by hard-coding the fully qualified class