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Incredibly proud to say I’ve released my 4th Pluralsight course: JavaScript From Scratch.  JavaScript is one of the most popular languages on the planet. In this course, you will learn all you need to know to get started programming with … Continue reading → For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/05/15/152933.aspxThis is a response/continuation of the discussion that Chad McCallum started over on his blog. He wondered what people’s view was on doing live coding within a presentation – for or against. Where. To. Begin. There is no right answer to the question. As developers, we like to look at things almost from a bit perspective – 0 or 1, yes or no, true or false. But humans aren’t computers and so to say that yes you should or no you shouldn’t use live coding demos isn’t a worthwhile argument because you’ll never get consensus from the most important group of people for a presenter – your audience. Consider these two comments: “I attended this session based on my experience from his other session. Great demos!” and “Number of presenters clearly didn't have any developer content prepared and re-used decks of the web and didn't get into any programming. [Speaker]’s was particularly bad.” Note the last part of the second commen

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/05/15/152931.aspxRemember Hello World? It was the program that we all started out with at some point. We did something that would make Hello World display somehow. But as we got older and more into our careers as developers, we’ve forgotten Hello World. Instead, we’ve replaced it with Contoso or Pet Store or whatever large, heavy, complex domain we decided would be a much better sandbox to frame learning a new technology with. I was talking with an attendee at Prairie Dev Con about this last week, and how we can easily get caught up in fulfilling the domain rather than understanding the underlying tech. Consider these two scenarios, both related to learning ASP.NET MVC with EF code first. A doctor’s office wants a web site to schedule patient visits. This site will use forms authentication and will leverage MVC and Entity Framework Code First. We’ll use jQuery on the front end for the UI and SQL Server in the back for storing

Jeff Fritz joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss ASP.NET, MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, Agile programming and a whole lot more.  Jeffrey T. Fritz – or simply “Fritz” is an ASPInsider and Developer Evangelist for Telerik with over 15 years of … Continue reading → For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com

This week I’ll be giving two talks and leading a workshop at the Sela Developer Practice in Tel-Aviv, Israel. I will be covering 10 Reasons Software Sucks Scaling Scrum Software Craftsman Workshop I’m really excited about this conference, it’s the largest Microsoft Conference in Israel and so far is turning out great. I flew in earlier today, my host met me at the airport and drove me to the hotel where the conference will be at – awesome hospitality! As I write this I’m sitting at the hotel restaurant over looking the Mediterranean Sea eating my dinner. It’s amazing to be in a country that I’ve heard of my whole life and now am actually here. Awesome.

Today, I find myself in Tel-Aviv in preparation for the SELA conference this week.  It has  been 40 years since I have been in Israel.  Back then, as a boy of 17, I thought I wanted to move here, and … Continue reading → For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/05/04/152861.aspxGo and read this. There is so much win in this blog post its obscene. One of the best commentaries on work/life balance I’ve read ever with loads of great suggestions and insight. http://blog.jongallant.com/2013/05/work-life-balance-at-microsoft.html?goback=.gde_42347_member_237479036&m=1

Those of us who work for corporations/companies/whatever (read: not self-employed) usually get an allotment of vacation (or ‘PTO’ – personal time off) each year.  Most companies have policies that put a cap on the amount of PTO you can carry over year after year.  Anything you don’t use, you lose.  You’d be an idiot to lose PTO (which is effectively paid days of work).  I was an idiot last year. At the end of the year I got the email from HR indicating that I was going to forfeit a lot of vacation if I didn’t use it.  The problem?  The math didn’t even work out that I could even use it.  It was forfeiture by idiocy for sure.  I left money on the table, but more importantly it led me to a realization that has been obvious to me, of course, for a long time. I work too much. I love my job.  I really do.  I enjoy going to work every day, I enjoy the people I work with, and I love the technology that I’m working with daily.  My work is also my hobby/passion.  This presents a problem for my non-work life and a

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/05/01/152836.aspxThe evening of Tuesday, May 7th is community night! Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg is hosting a free user-group-like event for the Winnipeg developer community! Mark Staffor