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  the:chris:walker This is the code and tech ideas and thoughts blog of Chris Walker ( thechriswalker, see "about" at the bottom...). It has been called various things, and gon...

• the:chris:walker://2013-02-26-php-generator-patterns.html

  First, let’s look at what generators are and why they are useful. Generators are like a lovechild of closures and iterators. A function is a generator if it uses a new keyword yield, and they can b...

• the:chris:walker://2012-12-04-zerojs.html

  jQuery is the defacto standard when it comes to all-purpose browser-based javascript libraries. There is no doubt unto it’s awesomeness. However, it has been remarked upon as getting bloated and so ...

• the:chris:walker://2013-07-15-awesome-features-of-go-part-2.html

  It’s been a while since the first post on this subject, and looking back it reads like it was written by someone who had not really used Go, just read “Effective Go” and then recited it back. Ho...

• the:chris:walker://2013-08-01-on-android-development.html

  I never used Java before. I had visions of dependency hell and having to use a giant IDE instead of Sublime. Turns out Android Development isn’t all that bad. We chose to use Maven as the dependency...

• the:chris:walker://2014-09-19-react.html

  ReactJS is a JavaScript library from Facebook. It turns web application development completely around. If you asked me 6 months ago if I’d ever write web applications without jQuery (or one of the a...