Angular 2 Meetup in Barcelona with Dan Wahlin and John Papa 2

I’m excited to announce that John Papa and I will be presenting at an Angular 2 meetup on July 31st, 2016 at 19:00 in Barcelona! We’re going to be there doing a full-day Ultimate Angular 2 Workshop and wanted to organize a meetup for people who aren’t able to attend. Event Details What? Angular 2 Meetup in Barcelona Where? Can Jaumandreu – UB Parc de les Humanitats i les Ciències Socials, Carrer del Perú, 52, 08018 Barcelona When? July 31, 2016 (19:00 – 21:00) Who? Learn from Dan Wahlin, John Papa and others! How do I Register? Register Here (limited spots available) If you’re not able to make it to our […]

New Pluralsight Course – Play by Play: Docker for Web Developers

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with my friend John Papa and talk about how Docker can be used to boost Web development productivity. In this Play by Play course on Pluralsight we discuss what Docker is and how you can get started using it by installing Docker Toolbox or Docker for Mac/Windows. We discuss what images and containers are and the role they play, talk about the layered file system, as well as how you can quickly and easily get a full development environment up and running on your dev machine with Docker Compose. This same environment can easily be […]

Developer Bliss with Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows 11

I’m a huge fan of Docker and am using it a lot in various projects now. In fact the https://blog.codewithdan.com site is running in Docker containers on Azure. Three containers are used and managed with Docker Cloud: nginx container WordPress container MariaDB (MySql) container What’s great about Docker is that I can have a local version of my blog up and running on my dev machine in a matter of minutes and it mirrors production. That makes it easy to test out various WordPress changes (plugin and theme updates for example) rather than trying them on my production server which can be scary! If you’re working […]

Video – TypeScript: Angular 2’s Secret Weapon

I had the awesome opportunity to speak at ng-conf (one of my favorite conferences) about TypeScript and some of the key features it provides that are used in Angular 2. While several of the features covered are available (and have been available for years) in server-side languages such as C#, Java and others, developers accustomed to writing browser-centric applications haven’t been able to leverage these features in the past. TypeScript provides a great way to take advantage of ES6 features while also providing support for some of the features I discuss in the talk such as interfaces, generics, type support and more. Angular 2 is […]

Yet Another Podcast Interview: TypeScript and Angular 2

I recently had the opportunity to chat with my good friend Jesse Liberty on his Yet Another Podcast show about TypeScript and the role it can play in JavaScript-centric applications. We talked about the benefits that TypeScript offers (much more than just strong “types”) as well as how TypeScript fits into the overall Angular 2 picture. Jesse’s an experienced podcast host who asks great questions and makes it easy to chat about any subject – TypeScript in this case! You can listen to the interview here.  

Angular 2 Workshop in Barcelona July 31st, 2016

I’m excited to announce that John Papa and I will be giving a full-day Angular 2 workshop in the beautiful city of Barcelona on July 31st, 2016! John and I are both really excited about the opportunity to come visit Spain and look forward to sharing our knowledge, expertise and passion with everyone. Read on to learn more about the workshop and what we’ll be covering.   What? Learn Angular 2 Where? University of Barcelona When? July 31, 2016 (9 am – 4 pm) Who? Learn from  John Papa and Dan Wahlin How do I Register? Register Here There are a limited number of […]

New Pluralsight Course: Docker for Web Developers

How I Got Into Docker (and why you should too) One of the most exciting technologies that I’ve researched and used over the past year is Docker. That’s a pretty bold statement, especially since I enjoy working with a lot of different technologies, so let me share a quick story about how I initially got started with Docker and and my personal journey (if you’d prefer you can jump directly to the Docker for Web Developers Course). You may have heard the term “Docker” tossed around at work or online and wondered what it was…I know I did. I heard […]

Video: Modern Web Development Interview with Channel 9

I had the privilege to sit down with Seth Juarez from Channel 9 at the AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas (fall 2015) and talk about modern web development and the main technologies that drive it. We talked about a lot of different topics ranging from TypeScript, Angular and Aurelia on the client-side to Node.js and ASP.NET 5 on the server-side. Seth’s a great interview host (and a super cool guy to hang out with) and I really enjoyed talking with him about modern technology in today’s world. Check out the interview below. Modern Web Development with Seth Juarez and Dan […]

Getting Started with ES6 – Using Classes

In a previous post I introduced how ES6 can be transpiled to ES5 using Traceur or Babel. By using transpilers you can write“modern” code and leverage features found in ES6 today while still allowing the code to run in older browsers. In this post I’m going to dive into classes which is one of the shiny new features found in ES6. Getting Started with ES6/ES2015 Classes Classes are the subject of much debate in the JavaScript world with some people loving them and others hating them. I’ve never believed in one world view being right for every situation and think […]