13 Feb
2013

It’s Markdown, no, PowerShell. Wait its Markdown formatted PowerShell.

I created an introductory presentation on PowerShell a while back and posted it on my GitHub. I first gave the presentation at the NNSDG and decided to also submit it as a talk to the Boise Code Camp this year. (Looks like I’ll be going ? track me down @staxmanade if you?d like to say […]

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10 Feb
2013

Agile for Families in the WSJ

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Elegant Code readers know I have used agile practices with my kids and family for years now. I even write and speak about it occasionally. Here are some past articles on the subject, and one podcast. Fast forward to yesterday?s article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, ?Run Your Family Like a Business? by Bruce […]

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8 Feb
2013

Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

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Earlier this week, I read this great article titled ?Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript? by Addy Osmani. This is a highly recommended read for anyone involved in writing JavaScript code. The topics that I found to be particularly interesting were the apparent fact that it?s better to avoid the delete keyword and cached functions in the […]

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7 Feb
2013

My Team’s Gated Build

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What is the most far out thing you’ve done in a CI build? I got this note through my Inbox today: I have configured the Gated build agent to: Run CodeAnalysis Treat CodeAnalysis Warnings as Errors Treat StyleCop Warnings as Errors Run Validate Architecture I could quibble about my wishy-washy opinions of gated check in, […]

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1 Feb
2013

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing Revisited

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Last year I wrote this blog post where I described a couple of ways on how to tackle routing with Express. In the mean while I moved on from the ?Plain Old School? approach to an approach where I replaced underscore.js with node-require-directory. Setting up node-require-directory is quite easy. In the routes folder, we just […]

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22 Jan
2013

Testacular cannot find Chrome on windows.

I recently started playing with AngularJS. After downloading the seed project and trying to run the tests with Testacular, I bumped into small issue that was not immediately obvious to resolve. When I ran the “./scripts/test.bat” I would get the following error(s) in my console: info: Testacular server started at http://localhost:9876/ info (launcher): Starting browser […]

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