If you have not watched Rich Hickey’s talk on Hammock Driven Development you should do so now. I’ll wait right here whilst you do. Great talk wasn’t it? Although delivered ten years ago, many of the problems Rich describes I still encounter today so in this post I will discuss […]
Scott Hanselman’s superb video on text editing is a must watch for developers of all levels because it is something that we as developers do on a daily basis, whether it is in a source file, JSON, XML or just a vanilla text file. Here are four keyboard shortcuts I […]
This was my third year in a row attending NDC London and it remains my favorite conference. You can read about my earlier visits in 2018 and 2019. The Operating System As in previous years, the location for NDC London 2020 was the Queen Elizabeth II Centre which is an […]
Here’s what I learnt when building two To Do applications. One was built using pure JavaScript and the other used jQuery with a smidgen of JavaScript. Each To Do list had to satisfy several basic functions. The user had to be able to add tasks, remove tasks, save tasks and […]
Thanks to Scott Hanselman’s tweet. I went off and had an enjoyable couple of hours building Jerrie Pelser’s Airport Explorer and learnt a lot more than I was expecting. Firstly the app is a single page ASP.NET Razor application, something I didn’t even know existed but now will be my first choice to […]
