Free Book: JavaScript Best Practice
A quick one. Most web developers can write JavaScript and I suspect it’s on most developer’s CVs somewhere. But it’s easy to write bad JavaScript and not so easy to write the good stuff. I guess it’s because JavaScript itself…
Simple Debug Panel for AngularJS
I am aware that there are many many other ways to get debug information from an AngularJS application but that’s not stopped me implementing another one. I do actually find a customised output of JSON objects useful particularly when working…
Simple String Concatenation Filter for AngularJS
I’m currently tinkering around with Angular JS. I’ve always liked JavaScript and since there is currently one or two (thousand) JavaScript frameworks around I thought I would have a go at the Angular. It wasn’t immediately obvious how to cleanly…
5 Ways To Write More Robust SpecFlow Tests
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve walked into the office on a morning to be faced with a wall of failed SpecFlow tests. I care about my SpecFlow tests, I look after my SpecFlow tests, I feed my…
Sorting Unknown Images With PowerShell
The Problem You’ve got a large amount of binary files. Some are images but you’ve no idea which ones. Some will be gifs, some jpegs, some bmp and other strange formats. They’ve been dropped on you without file extensions. Perhaps…
10 tips for working with remote development teams
I’ve been working closely with two remote teams for a couple of years. It works well but it’s not without its challenges. No-one would decide to work with remote teams to make a developer’s life easier. It might make your…
70-486 Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications – Study Notes Part 2
I’ve previously posted about preparing for 70-486 and some of the general materials that are available. Now I’m going to go through the syllabus a section at a time and highlight additional resources that I found useful. As I said…
70-486 Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications – Study Notes
I recently studied and passed the Microsoft exam Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications. Hooray. I thought it was a fair exam covering mostly helpful content – not something I can say for all the exams (70-551 I’m looking at you)….
Passing Parameters with Automapper
OK I admit it – sometimes I find automapper hard to work with. It’s fantastic when everything is well … auto, but some of the mappings I work with on a day to day basis are anything but automatic. There…
Handlerbars.js and Working with Complex Objects in MVC
In a previous post I used an EditorFor template to display child objects correctly on a view. Now we are going to use some simple JavaScript templating to add child objects. We have a page display book details and want…
