Nicholas Barger's Blog

Running the Microsoft .NET Stack on a Fresh MacBook Pro

My Career

I began very early, like many others in the computer industry. I learned to write batch files, QBASIC code, repair computers, set up small networks and became interested in learning anything I could about computers. I ran a bulletin board system (BBS) and was a hub for FidoNet before the internet was…

Tech Talk: NBAA

Recently, I began preparing a session for the NBAA conference in Orlando targeted at the aviation industry. I struggled identifying the needs of the audience since they were a bit different than I usually have the opportunity to speak to. The following article was not the presentation I gave, but an…

Conway’s Game of Life in Angular.js

I know there are a lot of posts for Angular, so I will spare everyone a rehash of setup and Hello World. Instead, I thought it would be fun to show a simple example of Angular recreating Conway’s Game of Life.

Resetting your defaults

My blog at nicholasbarger.com pretty much died. It had a decent run from 2008–2013, but then a sudden death. I stopped writing, forgot about controlling all of the SPAM comments, and even forgot to update my credit card which subsequently caused my custom css theme to disappear.

Paralysis Analysis and the Paradox of Choice

I am at the point where I visibly cringe at the mere mention of corporate buzzwords such as “paralysis analysis”, “single source of truth”, or “low hanging fruit”. However, all of these phrases are rooted in tried and true explanations of important and…

Learning Knockout JS — Crazy Mom Baby Tracker Demo

I’m thrilled to be able to report my wife and I had our second daughter on May 8th, 2012. Vanessa was 7 pounds even and very healthy. Due to the birth, I took a few days off of work to help out (in many ways, I think I was more work for my…

Fun and Struggles with MVC — No Parameterless Constructor Defined

It’s taking a little while, but I’m starting to understand the magic behind model binding in MVC. It’s fairly simply to try it out while watching videos and tutorials that are out there; but when I applied it to our…