I don’t mean that you shouldn’t write unit tests. You definitely should. But you shouldn’t feel bad deleting unit tests when you have some that are no longer relevant. This usually happens due to refactoring, but also happens due to requirements changes. …

Lately, I’ve been posting a bunch of really fun content in a series called Mastering Unit Testing on Twitter. The latest tweet is here on the difference between DAMP and DRY in unit testing. Please go give it a look and like/retweet. Const is a Lie in JavaScript The const keyword in JavaScript is a lie…

JavaScript has a nice Date Object. It can do all kinds of cool things like tell you the current date and time, etc. Lots of languages have a similar facility. And you shouldn’t use it. By that I mean, you shouldn’t use it directly. Let me clarify a little bit…

There’s been some fascinating discussion and debate recently about the modern web, and whether what we often take for granted as “the right way to do things” is really better than “the old way”. A lot of this has been centered around Hey.com, …

I like to paint miniature figures for Star Wars (pics below for anyone who may be interested). It’s about the geekiest of hobbies. The other day I was on a website buying custom bases for these figures. …

In my free course on the Fundamentals of Angular, there are just over 2 hours of content on template-driven forms in Angular. One of the main parts of this is coverage of how to validate user input. This is an important part of any framework’s forms handling. But in Angular…

Dates in JavaScript and Angular can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Let’s look at how to avoid potential bugs by gaining a fundamental understanding of JavaScript and Angular date handling and the quirks that come along with that. To start off with, you need to understand…

Earlier this year I was privileged to be able to help put on ng-conf Hardwired, a last-minute, seat of our pants scramble to turn an in-person conference into an online conference that was all duct tape and baling wire behind the scenes, but turned out great for the audience. Anyway…