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javascript

  2. Talk

    Going Beyond PowerPoint: How to Kickstart Your Technical Presentations

    Effective communication is a critical part of any developer’s career, and that includes delivering compelling presentations. Are you ready to take your technical presentations to the next level? This introductory talk is perfect for anyone looking to create more engaging and effective presentations without relying solely on PowerPoint. Discover easy-to-use tools and practical techniques that make your message clear and captivating. Learn how to incorporate interactive visuals, live demos, and storytelling elements to connect with your audience. Whether you’re presenting at a conference, meeting, or workshop, this session will equip you with the basics to confidently deliver presentations that leave a lasting impression.

  3. Article

    Highlight Reel for 2022

    When a new year arrives, it is a great opportunity to take a moment to reflect on where you started at the beginning of the year, and where you ended. When I look back on 2022, I noticed events reflected in my GitHub contribution graph that highlight some common cycles in my own behaviour. I want to take a moment to document this, and hopefully you can use this an example to examine your own progress and behaviour patterns that might be aiding (or impeding) your own personal and professional growth.

  4. Article

    Advent of Code 2021: Day 1

    My initial thoughts after completing the first day of my first journey into the Advent of Code

  8. Article

    Service Workers and PWAs are Super Cool

    One of the core items highlighted by the Microsoft Edge team, along with many others who were just web professionals, was the importance of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). I started out thinking they were something that could be interesting one day, but left the conference convinced that this will change the way we think of the web.

  10. Article

    IstanbulJS Code Coverage Reports in VSTS

    Here's another dev thing I use: IstanbulJS in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) builds and display the test reports as part of the build reports.

  11. Article

    Mocha Test Reports in VSTS

    Here's another dev thing I do: Display my MochaJS test report in the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) build report.

  14. Article

    Initial Thoughts on Using Phaser

    As a side project, I started making another JavaScript-based video game and decided to go with Phaser as my framework of choice. Here are my initial thoughts about Phaser after using it on my project for the past two months.

  15. Article

    How to Use Global NPM Packages on a VSTS Self-Hosted Build Agent

    I setup a self-hosted build agent in Visual Studio Team Services. My build installed global NPM packages, but the tasks that used them later on in the script would fail because they were unable to use them. This post describes what I did to get them working.

  16. Article

    How to Fix node-gyp Error on Windows

    Whenever I get a new machine, I pull down a new project using the `npm install command and get an error related to python and node-gyp. This post will remember the fix for this problem that I always forget.

  17. Article

    How to Build ReactJS with Gulp

    I started to tinker with React last week and needed to do some digging on how to transpile the React JSX files using Gulp. In this post, we walkthrough my newly updated Gulp task that transpiles JSX and JavaScript files.

  19. Article

    How to Use Highlight.Js with Bower and Gulp

    One of the best libraries I've seen for syntax highlighting on the web is highlight.js, IMHO. The catch to using the library is that it takes a bit more effort to setup than just adding a script tag and being done with it. In this post, I'll walk you through the steps I took to get this up and running with Bower and Gulp.

  23. Article

    Why ChakraCore OSS is Important

    It's pretty cool that Microsoft has released the source code of their JavaScript engine Chakra. But, why it is important and how do developers actually benefit from this?

  28. Article

    Can ASP.NET Become the Next Node.JS?

    I realize how crazy that sounds, but after yesterday's keynote from Microsoft at the VS Connect event in New York, I'm wondering if my goal to find a true cross-platform technology is sitting back at base camp just...leveling up.

  31. Article

    Installing Games JavaScript Style

    I bought the Humble Mozilla Bundle earlier this week and I wanted to take a moment to show people what it looks like to install a JavaScript game in the browser.

  33. Article

    Why do you CoffeeScript your JavaScript?

    I was asked this the other day: Why don't you just write your code in JavaScript directly? As in, why would you use a langugage that abstracts JavaScript, which doesn't require compiliation?

  34. Article

    Why do I JavaScript?

    The answer is simple: I don't want to limit about my platform options on day one.