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Now shipping: Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript
I’m very proud to announce that Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript is now shipping! For frequent readers, this book is the print version of my self-published ebook, The Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript, which I published at the beginning of 2013.
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5 Things That Don’t Have to Be Hard in Single Page Applications
Last week I came across a Blog post by Sourcegraph's Quinn Slack on 5 painful things about client-side JS or single page web applications. As I read Quinn's points and comments I could not help but think yes he is right, but wrong at the same time. I think he originally titled the article with Angular in the the title, which lit a fire under the framework's apologist, making him change the title. I have opinions about Angular and the other popular MV* frameworks, but I will reserve that for another post or three.
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A .NET Developer Primer for Single-Page Applications
A majority of Microsoft .NET Framework developers have spent most of their professional lives on the server side, coding with C# or Visual Basic .NET when building Web applications. Of course, JavaScript has been used for simple things such as modal windows, validation, AJAX calls and so on. However, JavaScript (client-side code for the most part) has been leveraged as a utility language, and applications were largely driven from the server side.
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Testing and debugging your geofencing apps
In a previous blog post, we talked about how to use geofences to make your apps smarter and more useful by having them respond to changes in the user’s location. With geofencing, your apps can do things like remind the user to pick up some milk when he or she is near a grocery store, or present a coupon for a nearby shop. The geofencing features in Windows 8.1 do this for you in an intelligent and power-efficient manner. This blog post complements the previous post by discussing how to test and debug your geofencing apps. Because geofencing depends on a device’s location, we’ll present you with a variety of techniques for verifying that your app is working correctly before you submit it to the Windows Store.
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