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8 Feb

2013

Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: JavaScript:

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 […]

7 Feb

2013

My Team’s Gated Build

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

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, […]

1 Feb

2013

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing Revisited

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:

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 […]

22 Jan

2013

Testacular cannot find Chrome on windows.

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

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 […]

14 Jan

2013

CodeMash Trip Report

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

In know I just posted my slides, but then I remembered that my jefe specifically asked me to share trip reports, which is a great idea. I wrote this and thought I may as well share it on ElegantCode, too. All, I recently attended the CodeMash conference for the second time in as many years. […]

13 Jan

2013

CodeMash 2013 Pre-Compiler Slides

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Last Tuesday Alexei Govorine and I presented a 1 day pre-conference workshop at 2013 CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio. Realizing Agility with Scrum and Visual Studio 2012 It was a great day with plenty of attendee participation and engagement. We visited Scrum and Agile practices, specifically looking at how to use Visual Studio and TFS […]

12 Jan

2013

Nokia 920 vs. HTC 8X

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

This is a total layman?s review of these phones. If you want tech specs and the complete rundown to the pixel level, go to CNET. Through a twist of fate, I came to have 2 brand spanking new Windows 8 phones at the same time. With 1 SIM, I could just flip back and forth […]

27 Dec

2012

When is a reference a reference?

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

My team is building some new awesomeness for Visual Studio and having fun conversations along the way. Here is the latest thing we are tossing about and we would like your help in thinking it through. A given class may be referenced many ways in code. Not all of those ways are things we think […]