Announcing my upcoming book "Learning Underscore.js"

  After a period of silent and sustained effort I am happy to anounce that my newest book "Learning Underscore.js" has entered its production stage and it is available to pre-order on my publisher website or on the Amazon.com website with delivery in a couple of weeks.

Free sample chapter "Testing and Debugging AngularJS Applications" from my recently launched book "Learning AngularJS for .NET developers"

  My book Learning AngularJS for .NET Developers (announced here) was published today and it offers a free chapter called "Testing and Debugging AngularJS Applications" available here.
  This chapter showcases some of the first examples available of integrating Karma and Protractor test runners for AngularJS in Visual Studio through Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.

Announcing my upcoming book "Learning AngularJS for .NET developers"

UPDATE: The book was launched on 25/07/2014 and it has a free chapter "Testing and debugging AngularJS applications" that is described here.

My blog was a bit quiet in the past 6 months and I had a good reason for this. Since February I am working on a book called "Learning AngularJS for .NET developers" covering the intersection between AngularJS, ServiceStack, ASP.NET MVC and ... Node.js.

Apps for SharePoint and modern web applications

  In a previous post I mentioned  a couple of improvements that the new "apps for SharePoint" model brings for the wider web development community. After developing a couple of web applications using this model I want to elaborate on the new technologies and practices that it made possible.

Productivity gains with the ServiceStack web framework

I am using the ServiceStack web framework with great success for almost a year and I want to expand  on why I have chosen it, its benefits and why it should be an essential part of  your software toolbox.

SharePoint 2013 supports open source / non-Microsoft platforms

    At this point in time (early 2013) almost all the Microsoft web frameworks and libraries are distributed as open source software: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Api, Entity Framework, Reactive Extensions, SignalR. You can contribute back to the original source or you can fork it and start developing and distributing your own flavour.
If you are a .NET web developer you are now using an open source development stack.