I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group in Denver, Colorado about Microservices, Docker, Angular, and ASP.NET Core which was a lot of fun. Briebug sponsored the event at Alamo Drafthouse and we had a great turnout! Thanks to Briebug for organizing the event (really appreciate Anne, …
Machine Learning (ML) gets a lot of press now days and for good reason. It can be used to gain insight into areas that were difficult to tap into even a few years ago. Want to know what type of object is shown in a picture? Machine learning can tell you. Need help predicting the next big stock to …
Angular 6 is out and it offers some great new functionality in the CLI and overall framework. One of the biggest new features (IMO anyway) is the CLIs support for schematics and the ng new library command to create and publish libraries (a big pain point that is now simplified). But, I …
I had the opportunity to talk with Phil Burgess on the IT Career Energizer podcast recently and really enjoyed the discussion. I'm used to talking about technical topics when I'm invited to a podcast, but this interview was completely different. Instead of getting technical, we focused on career …
ng-conf 2018 is officially over....too bad it can't go on forever. It's such a great conference that you don't want it to end. In addition to hearing a lot of high-quality talks from the Angular team and other awesome speakers, I had the opportunity to hang out with John Papa a lot (one of my best …
I had the opportunity to sit down with Simona Cotin (Azure Developer Advocate at Microsoft) at the AngularMix conference to talk about "Five Things About Docker". The video is one in a series of "Five Things" videos being created and produced by the Azure Developer Advocate team at Microsoft and …
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"What's the 'right' JavaScript library/framework for us to use?". That's a question that comes up a lot nowadays given the multitude of choices available and one that doesn't have a "right" answer of course. I'm fond of saying, "Use the right tool for the right job" when I'm onsite at a company …
Scenario-Driven Development (SDD) - a term I'd heard little about until my friend Justin Couto encouraged me to check out his team's Angular Playground tool. SDD didn't mean much to me when I first heard about it, but I decided to look into Angular Playground more and had one of those "light bulb" …
I've always been a fan of convention-based routing so I converted a local route generation script I've been using with Node.js/Express applications into an npm package called express-convention-routes. The package can be used to automate the creation of Express routes based on a directory …
