Unicode Support in Go

With Go being a relatively modern programming language, first released in 2009, it is not unsurprising that it has great support for Unicode strings. What is surprising is just how far this support goes.

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Meetup Alternatives

A look at the various alternatives to Meetup.com after recent online backlash to their proposed new pricing model.

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Recording talks at JSOxford meetups

I've been asked a few times recently about how we record the talks at JSOxford and what equipment we use. I thought it best to write up our process so others can also learn from it.

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Private Variables in JavaScript

JavaScript has had a lot of improvements lately with new syntax and features being added all the time. But some things don't change, everything is still an object, pretty much everything can be altered at runtime and there is no concept of public/private properties. But there are some tricks we can use to change some of this ourselves, in this post I am going to look at the various ways in which we can implement private properties.

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Getters and Setters in JavaScript

I was recently asked by Ruth to explain what the purpose of getters and setters are in JavaScript and how to use them. This led to me somewhat ramble about all I know on the subject in the JSOxford channel of the Digital Oxford Slack. People seemed to find what I said useful so I thought it best to write a more coherent version.

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