Books on Progressive Web Apps, JavaScript frameworks, Doom, a 20 year old classic and a developer life manual. Here are the technical books I read this year. Building Progressive Web Apps Following my attendance at NDC 2018 I wanted to find out more about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) so I started with this book. It became …
I have been working through the NG2 book on Angular 5 and became stuck when trying to get an example on Dependency Injection to work. Here is part of the problematic code I was unable to run: When running the sample, the page did not load and part of the console message reported by Chrome …
Looking back at the technical books I had read in 2017, the biggest surprise is that I didn’t read any books on Oracle which I think is the longest time I have spent between Oracle books. This hiatus will not last long into 2018 because of the imminent launch of Pete Finnigan’s new book The four …
Looks like the first technical book for 2018 I will be reading has already be decided. Pete Finnigan has a new book coming out in early January. More details from the publishers, Apress can be found here. At the time of this post there was no preview available. Fortunately the listing on Amazon does so …
Whilst attending the UKOUG Tech16 conference, several of the talks I attended mentioned the use of JSON (or to give it’s full name JavaScript Object Notation) These talks made me realise how little I actually knew about this Data Interchange Format. There are many resources for learning JSON, from websites of varying quality to …
I have always enjoyed reading books about Programming. From books that lead you to take your first tentative steps with a new language to ones that take you on a deep dive into the world of particular feature. I especially enjoy ones that discuss language agnostic programming concepts such as debugging, estimating etc. Books like …
I have been learning C# and the .NET framework for a while now and have been working my way through several books; The C# Programming Yellow Book, The C# Player’s Guide (2nd Edition) and C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework All of these books have helped me to varying degrees to get comfortable in Object Oriented programming, …
