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 […]
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 36 seconds
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute