Author: esantanche

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript

    I have been using JavaScript for 7+ years. I can write about: JavaScript and object oriented programming First class functions and pure functions Map, reduce, filter Factory functions and closures Mixins Node.js scripts Template literals Regular expressions Function composition much more

  • A. S. Neill

    A. S. Neill

    He founded the famous Summerhill school. It’s a school that teaches way more than reading, writing and doing maths. It teaches peace, happiness, responsibility, democracy, self-confidence, trust and cooperation. No other school in the world teaches these things although they are important, aren’t they? Summerhill is also a psychological experiment that disconfirms assumptions about human…

  • Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers

    He invented modern Western psychology. Thanks to him we now know that, to help distressed people, we are not supposed to fix them or to meddle with chemicals in their brains. We have to accept them unconditionally instead. He promoted freedom in the classroom and told us about the importance of becoming who we are.…

  • Alfie Kohn

    Alfie Kohn

    What is this mystery called motivation? How can we motivate children, students and employees? What works? What doesn’t? Alfie Kohn is the right person to ask. I read: Punished by Rewards, The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes Unconditional Parenting

  • Dorothy Rowe

    Dorothy Rowe

    Dorothy Rowe is one of the best worldwide experts in depression. She is one of the few psychologists who believe that you deserve the truth. I studied her: Beyond Fear Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison What Should I Believe?

  • Erich Fromm

    Erich Fromm

    Erich Fromm has been called the Love’s Prophet. He offers precious insights into: widespread psychological defects education human nature sanity and insanity in society I have studied many of his books: To Have or to Be? The Fear of Freedom The Sane Society The Art of Loving The Dogma of Christ On Disobedience  

  • Introducing subjects

    I showed you ideas. I have already researched a bit about them and to flesh them out into a full article will be easy. I will now show you a few of the subjects I know about. They are my sources of inspiration and learning. I studied them deeply. I can write for you an…

  • How to transform content titles into slugs

    How to transform content titles into slugs

    You have a page of content and it has a title. The title will contain spaces and strange characters you don’t want in the page’s URL. Take this title: “Bounce processing, when SMTP server doesn’t return bounces properly” You don’t want the spaces, the comma and the apostrophe to appear in the URL. This is…

  • Is JavaScript an object oriented programming language?

    How JavaScript is not an object oriented programming language because a pure object oriented implementation doesn’t allow you to create the flying dog. You would end up with a dog that flies, but also chirps and has feathers. With JavaScript you can go shopping around for properties and methods and produce the collage of your…

  • Adobe HDS video streaming protocol

    Adobe HDS video streaming protocol

    About the Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming protocol and how I used it for a great project.