Cmder is an excellent console emulator and my go-to tool for Git on Windows.
Every now and again I need to dip into the Visual Studio Command Tools to do something like manually run MSBuild, so it’s handy (and easy) to have this set up as a task in Cmder.
1. Manage Tasks
Click the plus icon towards the bottom right of…
Our team made the move to TypeScript and Angular at the tail end of last year. I'd had a look at Angular a year or so ago but struggled to get my head around the excessive usage of $scope and the nesting of $parent items that needed to be traversed.
Since then (with version 1.2.0), Angular now supports Controller As…
We're getting to that time again where hooletts and bogles come out to play, people wander the streets in fancy dress, and it’s socially acceptable to almost drown trying to bite apples.
It’s also a great time to settle down, switch off the lights and enjoy a horror movie. Rather than recommending some brilliant…
There are plenty of guides for how to do this online. But I end up spending 20 minutes searching every time I need to remind myself how to do it, so I'm putting it here to save me that hassle.
For the code, I'm just going to assume the drive is /dev/sdb. If you're following this, make sure you're using the correct…
We’ve been doing some work on a data display app that serves as a framework for a bunch of modules. We picked RequireJS to create the app due to its modular structure and used it with a Node.js backend to build a small app that we can now create child data modules for.
Each child module needs to be fully responsible…
I'm pretty lucky (from what I hear) in that our company operates a flexi-time system. I used to work strict 9:00-5:30 years ago but it never real fit well with software development. It’s not often that you’ll get to the end of a task bang on finishing time so you find yourself either working late (not good for you),…
Over the past few months, I’ve been helping out with recruitment for one of our offices by putting together a coding test and then marking the results. It’s been eye-opening. Also part soul destroying and tear inducing. At one point I stopped to look for the hidden camera, expecting a ghostly Jeremy Beadle to appear…
As JavaScript applications become more common and more complex, the need for good unit test coverage also increases. Hopefully you’re already writing tests. If not, why not?
When I’m doing TDD with C#, I use NCrunch to monitor all tests within the Visual Studio Solution and run them as they change. This saves me…
I actually put this together a while ago but have just realised I never put it up here.
The Problem
As part of some of the work I've been doing over the past year or so, we've run into issues dealing with units of distance. The most problematic of these being when an app that was created for a US market had to be…
Amazon Prime is “Unlimited FREE One-Day Delivery on millions of eligible items” that costs £49/year. Here’s a quick overview of it during my Christmas shopping experience.
Skyrim: Late
Ordered: Wednesday 27th November
Estimated Delivery: Friday 29th November
Arrived: Monday 2nd December
Kingston 4G RAM:…