I have a saying that “when I’m not coding, I’m coding.” I love what I do that much. I also bought into the commercials back in the day that stated “never stop learning.” So how do I fuse the two together? I do so through fun and educational pet projects.

Oftentimes I am called into a project that is adding new features to an existing application. While a lot of updates seem easy on the surface (I’m just adding a basic page that saves the user’s e-mail address), the underlying architecture of the system can make this rather complex. The shocking thing is that a lot of times the complexity isn’t immediatley discoverable. To help identify and estimate..

AngularJS is a new and popular Javascript framework. They make the bold claim on their website that “AngularJS is what HTML would have been, had it been designed for building web-apps.” I’ve been wanting to get my feet wet with AngularJS, especially with some upcoming projects that might use it. Fortunately I stumbled across “AngularJS: Up and Running” by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri (as..