‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Microsoft recently announced a developer preview release supporting JavaScript to create custom functions directly in Excel. This addition moves beyond the existing Microsoft Office JavaScript API ...

The javascript file contains a method addToViewer (theUrl), I need to get the variable 'url' from the servlet into this method.

$$; Source: Oracle blog When the function is invoked using the traditional CALL statement, an implicit type conversion occurs between SQL types and JavaScript types.