19 posts tagged with "featured"

2014 was a crazy year. I spent most of the year thinking about client side code while working on the new Azure Portal. I like to use the holiday break as a time to hang out with the family, disconnect from work, and learn about something new. I figured a programming language used for distributed systems was about as far from client side JavaScript as I could get for a few weeks, so I decided to check out golang.

Coming at this from 0 - I used a few resources to get started:

While attending the developer conference Øredev last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk on es6. Many of the new features I covered touch on challenges we've faced building the Azure Portal. Instead of covering each new feature one by one (Luke Hoban already does a nice job of that) I decided to cover a few high level features that fundamentally affect the way teams build large scale JavaScript applications.

Timeline​

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to give a talk on ASP.NET vNext at the Øredev developer conference. I had a blast - especially the part where I got to show off the new bits to a few hundred people on the big stage. It's especially fun showing off the new features that open up ASP.NET development with Mono on OSX. There's a lot of great stuff in this release - the new request pipeline, bin deployable CLR, command line tools, configuration APIs, SublimeText support, fewer dependencies on Visual Studio - and lots of open source.

Timeline​

So - I haven't been doing much blogging or speaking on WebMatrix or node recently. For the last year and a half, I've been part of the team that's building the new Azure portal - and it's been quite an experience. A lot has been said about the end to end experience, the integration of Visual Studio Online, and even some of the new services that have been released lately. All of that's awesome, but it's not what I want to talk about today. As much as those things are great (and I mean, who doesn't like the design), the real interesting piece is the underlying architecture. Let's take a look under the hood of the new Azure portal.

A little history​

Over the last few weeks, I've been slowly moving my blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. The change has been a long time coming, and so far I couldn't be happier with the results. I thought it may be interesting to make the ultimate meta post, and write a blog post about my blog. You can take a look at the source code on GitHub.

What's wrong with Wordpress?​