Getting Started with Aurelia

Welcome to Part 2 of this series reviewing the Pluralsight course Aurelia Fundamentals by Brian Noyes. Brian is CTO and Architect at Solliance, an expert technology solutions development company. Brian is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and specializes in rich client technologies including XAML and HTML 5, as well as building the services that…

Aurelia Fundamentals

Aurelia is a relatively new framework, which reached v1.0 at the end of July 2016. It’s popularity has rocketed in recent months, and many of you have told me that Aurelia is now JavaScript’s greatest Single Page Application framework: Best modern "all-in-one" #javascript framework — Kevin O'Shaughnessy (@ZombieCodeKill) June 18, 2016 (Note that React isn’t…

Events and Behaviors in Polymer.js

Welcome to the final part of this review of the new Pluralsight course Getting Started with Polymer.js by Bill Stavroulakis. Bill is a Microsoft MVP, and the creator of Dotnetweekly. He started his career in Silicon Valley in 2006 developing Facebook applications with more than 6 million users. He then worked on the Ruby-on-Rails framework,…

Reuse and Styling in Polymer.js

Welcome to Part 3 of this review of the new Pluralsight course Getting Started with Polymer.js by Bill Stavroulakis. Bill is a Microsoft MVP, and the creator of Dotnetweekly. He started his career in Silicon Valley in 2006 developing Facebook applications with more than 6 million users. He then worked on the Ruby-on-Rails framework, implementing…

Properties and Data Binding in Polymer.js

Welcome to Part 2 of this review of the new Pluralsight course Getting Started with Polymer.js by Bill Stavroulakis. Bill is a Microsoft MVP, and the creator of Dotnetweekly. He started his career in Silicon Valley in 2006 developing Facebook applications with more than 6 million users. He then worked on the Ruby-on-Rails framework, implementing…

Using Webpack for Production JavaScript Applications

The course Using Webpack for Production JavaScript Applications by Kent C Dodds is available on egghead.io Kent is a JavaScript developer from Utah who likes open source and teaching. This course is made up of 16 lessons, each approximately 5 minutes in length. So the course lasts a little over an hour if you want to learn it…

Getting Started with Polymer.js

Welcome to Part 1 of this review of the new Pluralsight course Getting Started with Polymer.js by Bill Stavroulakis. Bill is a Microsoft MVP, and the creator of Dotnetweekly. He started his career in Silicon Valley in 2006 developing Facebook applications with more than 6 million users. He then worked on the Ruby-on-Rails framework, implementing…

Firebase Overview – Google I/O 2016

Welcome to this summary of the Firebase Overview talk by Firebase product leads James Tamplin and Francis Ma, at Google I/O 2016. The full talk is available on YouTube and lasts 43 minutes. Firebase was acquired by Google in 2014, and has retained it’s brand. Francis says they’ve seen incredible growth over the last year and a half,…

V8, modern JavaScript, and beyond – Google I/O 2016

Welcome to this summary of Seth Thompson‘s V8, modern JavaScript and beyond talk from Google I/O 2016. This talk lasts approximately 37 minutes and covers five exciting topics: Real-world performance JS engine upgrades ES6 & ES7 Debugging + Node.js WebAssembly Real-world Performance V8’s mission “Speed up real-world performance for modern JavaScript, and enable developers to build a…

Human Readable Location Information

Welcome to the final part of this review of the Pluralsight course Android Location-Based Apps by Jim Wilson Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. He has co-founded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more.…