If your job ad for a software developer states the language or tools you expect them to use after they start, you may be doing it wrong. Smart developers should be able to pick up almost any language quickly when they’re working together, particularly if they’re pair programming Smart developers are good programmers in whatever … Continue reading
Author Archives: Kyle Hodgson
Test Driven Development with KnockoutJS, VisualStudio, and Karma: Binding to the View
In our last post, we created a ViewModel which models the basic functionality we would like on the page. As a reminder, we have a Knockout “observable array” of items suitable for binding; each item is a JavaScript object containing a title and description in addition to a value called complete which indicates if this … Continue reading
Southwestern Road Trip Day Two: Santa Fe
When the Spanish came to the area that’s now called Santa Fe, they would have found a number of Pueblo villages along what is now called the Santa Fe river. Today, it’s a city of nearly 70,000 that offers a world class mixture of people, Pueblo Revival style architecture, distinct landscape, and a rich arts … Continue reading
Southwestern Road Trip Day One: Albuquerque
I’ve wanted to visit Santa Fe again for as long as I can remember. We recently got the opportunity, having planned a four day road trip from Albuquerque to Denver. We flew in to Albuqurque Monday morning. We could tell we were somewhere far from Toronto right away – Banana Yucca plants decorated the airport … Continue reading
Test Driven Development with KnockoutJS, VisualStudio, and Karma
I’m giving a presentation on KnockoutJS and TDD at DevTeach in Toronto on Wednesday. I’ll be doing a live code demo, which is always exciting (at least for the presenter). I thought I’d write a quick article recording the steps I go through as part of the demo. Legacy Code Legacy Code, according to my … Continue reading
Test Driven Development with KnockoutJS, VisualStudio, and Karma: Live Demo
I’m giving a presentation on KnockoutJS, Karma-Runner, and TDD at DevTeach in Toronto on Wednesday. I’ll be doing a live code demo, which is always exciting (at least for the presenter). Here’s a screen grab of me practicing the live code demo. Topics covered: Creating project in VisualStudio, adding knockout and jasmine via nuget Setting … Continue reading
Testing with Angular’s E2E Testing Framework
Outdated content warning. The techniques in this article are now out of date. Google no longer supports the “E2E” testing framework. 7 Reasons to love Duck Angular covers a more modern approach to testing Angular applications. Note Special Collaboration This article is a special collaboration between Stephane Bisson, who developed the concept, the app, and … Continue reading
Knockoutjs on CDN? yes..
Originally posted on happy && coding:
Sometimes you just want to use a CDN for scripts, especially if you are working with cloud IDE’s and the like, similar to Cloud9 or Icenium. So one place that seems robust is Microsoft’s AJAX CDN network.
Resources for AngularJS Developers
One of the main complaints for AngularJS developers is that the documentation isn’t quite as rich as we’d like. I had the good fortune to talk to one of the members of the Angular team last night, and scribbled notes furiously. I’ve found each of the below valuable resources. Video Resources EggHead.io http://www.egghead.io has a … Continue reading
BreezeJS: TDD With Mocha and PhantomJS
I’m really interested in BreezeJS right now. It seems like a really promising new open source (MIT License) framework for helping you get data into your JavaScript applications, including single page applications (which are coming to be known by the acronym SPA). Breeze has lots of features. One to whet your appetite is the query … Continue reading
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