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AWS CDK MFA

Post published:March 23, 2020
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / JavaScript / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:0 Comments

The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a welcome contribution to the “Infrastructure as Code” family. It is a development framework that allows you to configure AWS resources using programming…

React Developer Tooling

Post published:December 11, 2019
Post Author:Oleksii Kulikov
Post Category:JavaScript / React / Tools & Workflows / Web
Post Comments:2 Comments

During React Conf in Las Vegas this year Brian Vaughn, a member of the React JS-core team at Facebook, announced some of the new features and additions to React developer…

How to override styled-components styling with external CSS

Post published:May 2, 2019
Post Author:August Alfredsson
Post Category:React / Web
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Styled-components is a wonderful way to style the components in your React project, but using it together with existing CSS can be a bit tricky – especially if you want…

AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

Post published:September 11, 2018
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / JavaScript
Post Comments:13 Comments

I have spent some time working with the AWS Elasticsearch Service lately. Regrettably, I found the threshold before being productive was higher than I anticipated. One of my obstacles was…

6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For

Post published:May 23, 2016
Post Author:Gustaf Nilsson Kotte
Post Category:JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:4 Comments

During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…

Headless JavaScript testing with RequireJS and Chutzpah in Visual Studio

Post published:October 30, 2014
Post Author:Christian Jacobsen
Post Category:JavaScript / Testing
Post Comments:1 Comment

Introduction I want to share my setup for testing JavaScript code when used with RequireJS in Visual Studio. My goal was to have the JavaScript tests look and feel the…

Comparing Core Async and Rx by Example

Post published:September 16, 2014
Post Author:Johan Haleby
Post Category:Dynamic languages / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:6 Comments

Last week I saw a core async webinar where David Nolen of Cognitect presented the use of core async with its channels and go blocks in a frontend application using…

WebView Javascript interop woes in Windows (Phone) 8.1 Universal apps

Post published:August 27, 2014
Post Author:Andreas Hammar
Post Category:.Net / Web
Post Comments:3 Comments

I’m currently working in a project creating a web-hybrid app on Windows Phone (and iOS and Android). My role is creating the Windows Phone version, and I’ve bumped into a few…

Atom – A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

Post published:July 4, 2014
Post Author:Anton Fagerberg
Post Category:Uncategorized / Web
Post Comments:3 Comments

Suppose we have two extremes when it comes to code editors. In one corner are the old school trusted veterans like Emacs and Vim, and in one corner are the…

Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Choose your weapons

Post published:April 4, 2014
Post Author:Alexander Persson
Post Category:.Net
Post Comments:2 Comments

This blog post is part of a series about how Windows Phone 8.1 affects developers. With the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1 we are no longer limited to using C# or VB…

Running scripts with npm

Post published:March 28, 2014
Post Author:Anders Janmyr
Post Category:Dynamic languages
Post Comments:33 Comments

Most people are aware that is is possible to define scripts in package.json which can be run with npm start or npm test, but npm scripts can do a lot…

Windows Phone 8 native and Javascript interop

Post published:March 10, 2014
Post Author:Alexander Persson
Post Category:.Net / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:4 Comments

In the last blog post we talked about our experience as a C# developer when migrating a C# app to Javascript + Html. In this follow up post we will…

Experience developing a Windows Phone 8 app with Html5 and Javascript

Post published:March 7, 2014
Post Author:Alexander Persson
Post Category:.Net
Post Comments:3 Comments

Recently we developed a Windows Phone 8 app communicating with a simple rest service with C#. With all the buzz around html5 and JavaScript we wanted to see how hard…

Improving your functional CoffeeScript and JavaScript

Post published:December 22, 2013
Post Author:Oskar Wickström
Post Category:Dynamic languages / Tips & Tricks / Web
Post Comments:2 Comments

Lately I have found myself being influenced by functional programming languages like Haskell and Clojure, especially in how I write JavaScript. Despite it still being a bit verbose, I think…

Solving the Expression Problem in Javascript

Post published:June 21, 2013
Post Author:Anders Janmyr
Post Category:Dynamic languages
Post Comments:4 Comments

I just watched a great presentation by Daniel Spiewak called Living in a Post-Functional World. I watched it mainly because I heard it was a great presentation on how to…