Jesse Liberty

Yet Another Podcast #124–Mary Jo Foley And The New Microsoft

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Mary Jo Foley, editor of ZDNet’s All About Microsoft blog talks about /Build and the new leadership at the New Microsoft.

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Learning Kendo? This is the book!

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

OK, it is somewhat questionable for me to recommend a book that I contributed to and that is published by the company I work for, but I honestly believe that Falafel Software’s new Kendo UI Nuts And Bolts is the book on the topic.

It has everything I look for in a technical book. It is

Expert
Comprehensive
Cohesive
Readable
Short

The expertise behind this book is unquestionable; the author and numerous contributors are recognized Kendo UI experts who also provide consulting, training and mentoring in Kendo.

The book is surprisingly comprehensive. Its coverage of topics such as the DataSource, Templates and MVVM are second to none, and bring out points I’ve not seen covered elsewhere

It tells a story, and the arc of that story is compelling. You learn Kendo from the ground up; not only the how but the when and the why. This is greatly enhanced by the readability of the book (it shocks me how many books make it to print without any apparent editing). And finally, yes, at 161 pages, it is short; short enough to read through.

Note that this $39.95 training guide is presented as a downloadable pdf.

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Angular Part 4–Testing AngularJS

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

It is time now to turn our attention to testing AngularJS applications. Over time, we’ll want to move to test-first, where we write the test and then write the code. There are many advantages to test-first, but let’s hold off on discussing them until we’re ready for that step.

Today, I’d like to discuss testing Controllers. Continued here…

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Yet Another Podcast #123–Ted Neward on Architecture

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

This episode marks the premier of John Papa as permanent co-host of Yet Another Podcast (along with Jon Galloway as intermittent co-host)!

Joining John and me are Ted Neward. Ted is CTO of iTrellis Software, a Microsoft MVP and much-in-demand speaker. We talk about software architecture, AngularJS, and much else.

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Angular Part 3–BDD With Angular JS

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

In a previous posting I introduced the critically important topic of Behavior Driven Testing, but the example I gave was straight JavaScript rather than Angular. We’ll want to modify that example to be Angular, but to do so we need a bit more of the fundamentals under our belt.

Let’s return to the previous program and modify Index.html, which will be our opening page. This article continues here

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Yet Another Podcast #122–JavaScript: Core Concepts

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway and I welcome Ward Bell and Elijah Manor to discuss the fundamentals every serious JavaScript programmer should know.

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Angular Part 2- Behavior Driven Development

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

In an earlier posting I discussed, briefly, why Angular is suddenly so popular, and demonstrated how to get started with Angular without writing a line of JavaScript. It’s time now to turn our attention to a slightly more realistic example.

Many lessons on Angular pay lip-service to the importance of unit-testing and test-driven development, but virtually none actually practice it. This series will buck that trend and teach Angular and testing Angular at the same time. In the long run, this will be faster and better than trying to tack testing on at the end.

You can read the next installment in this series here

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Yet Another Podcast #121–AngularJS Roundtable

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

We welcome Ari Lerner, author of NG-Book and Ward Bell and John Papa to discuss AngularJS and Ari’s comprehensive book on the topic.

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Read twice as fast, one word at a time

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

It turns out that there are better ways to read than the way we learned as children.

Based on significant research, Flash Reading appears to be able to instantly increase your reading speed by 50% to 100% or more, while maintaining or increasing comprehension.

The general idea is to flash each word on the screen sequentially, pausing a bit for punctuation. Some more sophisticated incarnations slow down slightly for larger words.

It is almost shocking how quickly your brain can absorb the flashed words.

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I’ll be speaking at DevIntersections/Angle Brackets

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

April 13-16, 2014 at JW Marriott Grande Lakes, Orlando Florida

I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be speaking at Angle Brackets. Angle brackets is “a conference for lovers of the Web.” It has been described as “the conference for those who miss Mix,” and it is co-located with DevIntersections: tickets for one get you full admission to the other.

This year’s speakers include

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Creating Your First Angular Program

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Last week I had the privilege of presenting on Angular at Live360. I’ve written up part of that presentation as a blog post here. In this blog post I describe how to get started with Angular and how to create your first Angular application with data binding and more.

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Underscore: LINQ (almost) for JavaScript

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

As part of my emerging series on LINQ from Scratch, I’d like to take a small detour today into what you do if you need the functionality of LINQ in your JavaScript program.