Dave Barrows Tech Blog

In the past year or so I've been taking quite an interest in AngularJS .  I've read the O'Reilly book by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri; the Apress book by Adam Freeman; I'm doing a Pluralsight course by Shawn Wildermuth; there's a good set of blog posts by a guy called Nils Naegele.  Tons of stuff also on Stack Overflow also.  And there are many other Pluralsight courses . The Pluralsight course is particularly interesting in that it seems the way forward for developers who work with the Microsoft technology stack such as myself.  Using Azure, EF and ASP.NET / MVC WebAPI on the back-end, and Angular on the front-end appears to be the state of the art at the moment.  I'm also quite impressed with the ease with which I was able to set up a development VM in Azure , and I'm using that VM to follow along with the Wildermuth course. It's all good stuff.  And I'm working on an app on which to apply all this newfound knowledge. Happy Holidays! ...

Hello and Happy New Year 2014.   It’s been an eventful year for me; I became an independent contractor in central London and it’s been going well.   I’ve been acting as solution architect and lead developer on a greenfield project for a financial services client, building an application with a variety of technologies including MVC 4 / JavaScript / jQuery with a bit of Knockout, SQL Server 2012, and an ETL solution using SSIS 2012.   It’s coming along nicely, and I’ve really been enjoying this challenge and opportunity. Incidentally toward the end of 2013 I was contacted by C# MVP Patrick Smacchia; I had previously blogged about his product NDepend , and he’s now asked me to take a look at the new version 5 .   Full disclosure:   I have not received any compensation for this, but he did send me a professional licence for evaluation.   I agreed to take a look at it for a number of reasons of my own.   Having looked at it previously, I thin...