When exploring some graphql I stumbled over it’s quite special syntax for defining a query gql`query` . Now this seemed like a nice shorthand way of expressing an inline query, but I just couldn’t understand which construct made this possible. Typescript? Ecmascript 2016? Or maybe some other feature?
There was a recent blog post with the status of Aurelia vNext. For those of you that don’t know, Aurelia is a front-end framework with a focus on standards, extensibility, ease of use and performance. It’s been a while since a new major release, so vNext is a pretty big deal.
There was recently a post on the Aurelia Discourse that caught my attention asking how react-like hooks would work when using Aureliajs. The response from Aurelia’s creator underlined some of the reasons why I trust Aurelia to build JavaScript applications with Aurelia.
We’ve been joking a long time about the rate new technologies arise and how we as software developers need to keep abreast of the new so we don’t get completely outdated and irrelevant. With web development though, we’ve set a new standard.
That’s right! Thanks to the folks at Programutvikling, we’re going to be giving away a ticket to NDC 2012 at the next NNUG Vestfold meetup!
There’s gonna be frontend focus this meeting. I’ll be warming up the crowd with a session on “Forseti Driven Development”, and the main show is gonna be Marius Gundersen presenting “Building a 3D engine in Html5”.
More info on the talks, and the speakers on the meetup page.
Yesterday, Einar Ingebrigtsen and I had a co-talk at NNUG Vestfold, titled: ”Sugarcoating your front-end, one ViewModel at a time”.
We had a great turn-up and a good Q&A thereafter. I think we got a few people to star thinking slightly differently in regards to how to treat web-pages more like web-apps. We pushed hard on the MVVM pattern and how that conceptually fits the way web, and web-apps work. KnockoutJS certainly is a framework I’m starting to really love, and I’m sure there are other out there ready for it.
NNUG Vestfold Meetup 29. Feburary
Announcing NNUG Vestfold’s first meetup of 2012.
I’m pleased to get started with the first NNUG Vestfold session this year. Last year didn’t really turn out the way I expected, with a total of 1 meeting!
In an ongoing effort to push my comfort zone, I’ve decided to hold a session for this meeting.
After talking to a colleague of mine, my small talk suddenly became a 2-man-show!
In this past year at work, we’ve been in the process of developing a new platform from the bottom up with new functionality. One of the goals was to move away from an old unmaintainable solution to a new maintainable solution based on expected coding standards, and of course to meet the business’ needs about scalability and rapid feature development. With an overloaded domain, responsibilities were mingling with each other and business rules and validation was all over the place.
2011 has been hectic, to say the least. Full of enriching life-experiences (personal and professional). I had a few goals for the past year: my health, family, profession. Some things worked out quite well, other things…not so well (so what’s new?).
A friend of mine is going on about his big hairy goal. It’s intimidating and inspiring. Here are some things I’m hoping to dive into this coming year: JavaScript Norwegian .
Microsoft have done a really good job by giving developers a great environment to do their work in; namely the Visual Studio suite with all its variants. This IDE’s intellisense is one of its strongest points, but anyone that’s tried to write javascript code has probably felt a bit lost.
Intellisense, brace-highlighting, current variable highlighting, code comments…all gone….until now!
Microsoft Corp has just released JScript Editor Extensions, a Visual Studio extension that enables all of the above, along with code outlines.
