This is a classic. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduced a feature that prevents you from changing a table in the designer if it needs to be re-created. And whenever I get this I always forget where to turn this feature off. This time I recorded a 14-sec video that shows where this option is. Enjoy
#528 — April 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Trip Report from the Latest Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a year, Node’s collaborators and community members meet at collaboration summits to share knowledge, discuss problems, and flesh out new ideas. The last one took place in London earlier this month and featured discussion on
#683 — April 11, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Frontend Development Beyond React: Svelte — A surprisingly thorough article going deep into one developer’s research into using Svelte to build modern front-end apps. If you’ve never experimented with Svelte, this is a good primer to the key concepts, tradeoffs, and techniques involved. Héla Ben
#527 — April 9, 2024 Read on the Web zx v8.0: Google’s Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes,
#682 — April 4, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript — A (very) early stage proposal for bringing a new feature to ECMAScript/JavaScript: signals! The proposal brings aboard ideas from a swathe of popular frameworks and aims to align everyone and get us on the same page
#681 — March 28, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution — A helpful diagrammed and animated article, coupled with an (optional) 8-minute video, that goes into how promises work and are scheduled behind the scenes. It’s useful to have a good mental model of these mechanics, given promises form the
#526 — March 26, 2024 Read on the Web 🐣 A quick note to say Node Weekly is taking next Tuesday off, in celebration of Easter. We’ll be back on Tuesday, April 9 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign — Yes, Node’s official homepage has an all new, clean, modern design.