How to use Chutzpah with Visual Studio and Build?

If you want to do some JavaScript Unit testing your most probably going to use things like Jasmine, Qunit or Mocha, which are all great things, but how do you run them? This was a challenge I came upon with Visual Studio and how to get it running like a normal NUnit test.

Learn a Framework not a Language

I listened to a podcast that said you should learn a coding framework first not a language. Now this might seem weird and confusing to existing developers as we were brought up with the basic languages and then frameworks have become a trend, but that’s because we are old. New developers are coming into the industry and frameworks are the top dog thing to know and use. You can’t see a job without one these day, so is it better to learn the framework first or should you go back to basics first?

Display flex back to old browsers

CSS3 and HTML5 has brought us a host of new and exciting features, but then the party poopers come and tell use we need to make sure everything works on the older browsers. At this point we realise these older browsers need some hammering to make sure the new toys still work. One of these features is the display property’s value ‘flex’.

Accessible Table Generator

Content Editors entering content is the bane of all developers lives, as the Editors will add in the most ill-systematic mark-up through the Content Management System (CMS). However they are not developer and do not know what they are doing, that’s why I build an Accessible Table Generator for the Editors at my work.

Less code and more tools

In the world of automation, DevOps and a huge amount of tools for website development are we doing less code and so becoming less of a developer and more of an admin? Over the few years of me doing web development I how found more things have come out the box to reduce the amountContinueContinue reading “Less code and more tools”

Visual Studio Code Cookie Snippet

If you didn’t know, Microsoft release an editor called Visual Studio Code and if you didn’t know, Visual Studio Code can handle Snippets and extensions. These Snippets can be created by Visual Studio and by the coding community. These can be simple modules to help coding or full languages. I have found a use toContinueContinue reading “Visual Studio Code Cookie Snippet”