So you need a library for doing foo. No problem – you hop over to GitHub and you find FooX and FooY. FooX hasn't had a commit for over a year, it has no open pull requests and generally no activity to be seen. On the other hand FooY had a commit just last week, and there are a bunch of pending pull requests, open issues, and associated activity. Which library are you inclined to choose?
Time for some opinion. In the last few days I have taken my first serious look at OWIN and I can't help but feel the whole idea is being polluted by the Katana project.
I've been looking out for ways to use ScriptCS in my day-to-day work lately. Each time I do, I am impressed by how much time it saves me.
So today I found myself needing to write some code with a named Mutex in C#. ScriptCS to the rescue!
For the last few months I have been working on a large, complex KnockoutJS application.
Along the way I have picked up a number of patterns and techniques that have helped keep things manageable.
One of the most important lessons was to learn to love custom bindings. Today I will show an example of how you can use a custom binding to add reusable logic to your views without having to make changes to your viewmodels.
I've just switched my blog over to a new host. Finally saying goodbye to blogger after more than 7 years.
The new setup is Jekyll hosted on GitHub.
Hopefully I didn't trigger "new" posts in your feed reader.
I still have some older posts to tidy up, but overall the process has gone fairly smoothly.
I'm looking forward to getting some new posts on here soon. See you then!