Currently enjoying the strong brew that is JavaScript Allongé.

Currently enjoying the strong brew that is JavaScript Allongé. This is a nice book about modern JavaScript (ES6) features within the context of functional programming.

You can download a generous free sample of the book at the Leanpub site.

https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read

Amazon patents zeppelin warehouse with drone delivery system.

Amazon patents zeppelin warehouse with drone delivery system.

Described is an airborne fulfillment center (“AFC”) and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAV”) to deliver items from the AFC to users. For example, the AFC may be an airship that remains at a high altitude (e.g., 45,000 feet) and UAVs with ordered items may be deployed from the AFC to deliver ordered items to user to and from the AFC.

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9305280.PN.&OS=PN/9305280&RS=PN/9305280

I’m finally taking Ramin Honary’​s advice and looking into the Elm programming language.

I’m finally taking Ramin Honary’​s advice and looking into the Elm programming language.

Elm is a pure typed functional language which is focused on web development and cross-compiles to JavaScript. I’d been hearing the name mentioned in many contexts so I thought I’d better start finding out about it.

The Redux state management framework for example which is used with React and is now gaining popularity among Angular2 developers took its inspiration from Elm.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/evancz/an-introduction-to-elm/details