‘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 ...

At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference today, the company announced a range of new features that will be coming to its Excel application, such as JavaScript Custom Functions and more. Today at ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users will be ...

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

I created a process to open a menu when a button is pressed, but nothing happens.Even with the same JavaScript, it suddenly started working when I changed where the file was loaded.In web development, ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

JavaScript doesn't have a native namespace facility so how are you supposed to keep utility and helper functions private? The solution is to use inner functions but this is just the start of the story ...

There are many ways in which JavaScript's approach is different from standard, run of the mill, class-based languages, but some of them go unnoticed. Take the whole subject of parameter passing - ...

Many business websites use forms to capture user data. These forms use HTML markup and optionally JavaScript functions. Your website may use URL variables, which allow you to pass data items as part ...