JavaScript

JavaScript - One of the most popular, versatile, feature-loaded, flexible and efficient web programming languages. Created by Brenden Eich in 1995, it is now widely used in a variety of devices like computers, mobile phones, tablets, television sets etc. to display web applications in a large number of formats performing a variety of functions. A regular web application will be time consuming if it has to produce fast and exquisite pages in response to user interactions using HTML, CSS or other languages. JavaScript transforms a web browser in such a manner that it produces instant reports, pages in quick response to user data. In other words, it programs the browser to perform a lot of tasks which would have been done by many other linked applications slowly and in a burdensome manner. The browsers are now not only fast but also more productive in use.    

First developed as an alternative to Microsoft’s ASP language by Netscape for its Netscape Navigator browser, it has grown since the Internet boom began. Since web users need fast, accurate, responsive as well as elegant web sites, other programming languages like Java, C, C++, HTML etc. could not be used. Hence, a programming language that could process data

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at the browser level itself without going through the long server-side process was the need of the time. JavaScript combines the HTML type markup using tags with the Java, C++ type programming to produce fast, interactive, dynamic web pages for the users. JavaScript comes through all the versions being ES1, ES2, ES3, ES4, ES5 and currently ES6 versions. It has some very interesting features like object-oriented programming for faster, modular and secure pages, to inbuilt functions, JSON objects, DOM (Document Object Model) feature to modify the entire page fast, Event programming, Arrays to frameworks like Angular, Nodejs, Bootstrap, Express.js, Spring etc. libraries like React etc. Alongside, it enables the Console tool which a developer can instantly view the program output in the browser console itself.

It has lately left behind many other programming languages viz- Python, Java in today’s world of mobile revolution, scalable web pages as well the elegance and dynamism of the web. A recent study shows JavaScript’s versatile, feature loaded and wide capabilities have made it indispensable for web applications. It has been used to create popular apps like Netflix, Candy Crush Saga, Facebook, Uber, Ebay, Groupon etc. Given its C, C++, Java type programming structure it easily allows programmers to develop apps alternatively and more easily. Moreover, its HTML embedding allows it to be used for processes very easily for dynamic and featured web pages. It can used for Frontend as well as Backend web development. Thus it can help store, retrieve data from backend devices as well as display them easily in web pages. Hence, we can develop full-stack web applications using one language. For mobile games, frameworks like React Native, Phaser, PixiJS etc. help develop fast and portable mobile games. It has database frameworks like MongoDB, NodeJS etc. to accomplish a lot in the web app development and deployment world.

However given the fast changing nature of web apps, it has to keep pace with transitions coming. Python has an upper hand in dealing with AI and AI-based services. New libraries like TensorFlow.js, Brain.js, Synaptic will use machine learning to train apps within JavaScript. On the other hand, AI integration in the web browsers will also enhance the capabilities of JS in creating and running interactive and dynamic webpages. In addition, new serverless models of web development, Web Assembly, better JavaScript Engine development, Framework evolution will help it retain its supremacy in the web app development and deployment business.                                

 

Facebook Memes & Jokes

Facebook - The most popular and ubiquitous social networking site is a great repository of cards on jokes, memes and funny cartoons spread across diverse topics and issues. Quirky one or two-liners, poetry, cartoons or memes -meaningful and funny descriptions on real pictures, drawings etc. make up a lot for the humorous side of the page. Informative, educational as well as funny these jokes & memes have earned a distinct place among the mass public.

They educate and alert the people about silly mistakes, stupidities or ignorance in life. Sarcastic and critical, they trickle the humor out of the 

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most sad and depressed of the people. For example- The picture here on right(bottom) humorously displays the situation where a cat starts using a laptop to type randomly by itself

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. Another one (top, left) jokingly, tries to show how to prepare oneself for the week starting Sundays. Take the next one right (below), displays the lethargic attitude towards work in Monday. Beneficial jokes like these make good mood among the millions of users logged in here. Credits due to the creators of such useful art. Be it Companies, individuals or part-time contributors, they have made browsing the app more informative, happy, humorous and at the same time amply vetting out public expressions better.

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The impact of these varies from people to places to tastes and opinions. What may sound humorous to one may irritate someone or escape notice of any other. Sometimes controversy erupts owing to objectionable depiction of characters or incidences. Some have been deleted after peer supervision or court orders. Examples of public riots and violence have also been reported on many Memes or Posts. In short Memes & Posts are popular and thought-provoking at the same time. 

Facebook being such a popular medium, Memes & Jokes whatever be their effects and response do create vibes healthy to public opinions, tastes or feelings. More deeper analysis of issues will provide more stuff for such creativities. The future of Memes & Jokes would surely be more complex, sophisticated and clearer. Use of AI apps to create jokes and graphical posts will be a step further. Wish more smarter and beneficial Memes & Jokes to brighten the days of its users and admirers. 

The Smartphone

A wallet-sized, sleek, hand-held device that gives instant text, voice communication as well as all the information at our fingertips. A device so ubiquitous with almost all our daily uses that we can't do without it now-a-days. The smartphone is basically an electronic device that enables the user to use apps for everything viz - making phone calls, sending/receiving text messages, checking social-media updates, making video-calls, checking bank a/cs., doing online shopping, learning/training, gossiping etc. very instantly and elaborately. A long development from the traditional landline phones which could be used for voice calling only, the smartphones have evolved into versatile, multi-tasking devices making communications easy, personal as well as fast. It can work as a watch, a TV, a landline phone, a calculator, a PC, a camera, a video-recorder, a notecopy, 

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an ATM, a music-player, a video-player all-in-one. Apart from dialling people for private or professional purposes, we can connect live with video-calls, send or receive, text messages as well as exchange pictures, files-text documents, spreadsheets, projects, PDF files, alongwith videos to almost every person anywhere on the earth. The uses are so easy that even children, people with basic literacy, without any special knowledge can communicate with it. Our connectivity has become so fast, instant as well as voluminous that the world has become much faster, closer as well as interconnected soon. Messages, documents, files, pictures or data which hitherto took days or months can now be sent/received instantly at our fingertips, anywhere. Alongside these, accidents, mishaps have also increased. People texting, busy over

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phones are more prone to road accidents on streets and lanes. Many also died taking selfies in risky places like mountain-top, running streams, rivers or alongwith animals like crocodiles, snakes etc. Added to that our privacy also seem to be at risk due to them. Smartphones are hacked leading to loss of money, access to private pictures, videos or the traps of scamsters for lucrative financial profits, jobs etc. Smartphones are also costly. Popular phones often cost a fortune to own. In addition physical and in person communication have decreased leading to tense relationship, digital divide, seclusion etc.

 

Smartphones are somewhat a mix of the hand-held phones and the computer. Features of the computers like sending/receiving email, use of apps for all kinds of activities like typing documents in MS-Word, Notepad, or Spreadsheets like MS-Excel, photo-editing, graphic designing, using browsers for websites, reading PDF (Portable Document Format) files, video-calling, selfies using cameras etc. have transformed the lame looking feature phone into a very smart device that is used so often. Some describe them as miniature computers. It has a touch-screen 5", 5.5" or 6-7" in dimension with two switches to increase/decrease volume and power buttons usually. A USB port type C now-a-days, is used both for charging as well as connecting the device through USB with PCs, Digital Cameras etc. alongwith cameras on the front for selfies and back for taking pictures. In the inside it has a motherboard, a chip to process popularly Qualcomm Snapdragon, Apple A15. AMD Ryzen, Samsung Exynos etc. ROM and other smaller chipsets. It has a slot for one or more SIM cards and Memory Card for expanding memory. Most popular smartphones globally are iPhones 15,16,12,14 etc. Samsung S24, A15, A54, Vivo Y56 5G, Oppo A78 etc. The connectivities are provided by telecom companies that enable the phones to connect by satellite communication through mobile towers, broadband lines etc. Popular telecom brands include Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone-Idea, BSNL, etc. offering 4G or 5G connectivities. Such is the attachment to the smartphones these days that people prefer to connect via them instead of direct communication. Greetings, wishes for festivals, personal achievements, marriages, invitations etc. are done through text or decorative and attractive posts/cards sent through them. Taking selfies and posting them instantly, updating are common now-a-days. Smartphones have made communications very personalized and quick these days. We can communicate no matter where we are - while in a bus/train, shopping malls, offices, bedrooms, streets etc.

With more features like the use of AI in apps, use of phones as remotes for car locks, switches, transparent devices, health-monitoring devices etc. coming, technology will transform them into smarter ones to accomplish more. The basic point would be to use them for the benefit of all instead of harm to one and all.