Imagine your team just deployed an amazing todo list app. A month later, another team in your company wants to run your todo app within their invoice app.
So now you need to run your todo app in two spots:… Read on...
Author Archives: Cory House
Public Speaking Transformed My Life…and Can Change Yours Too
A Call For Speakers…From 40,000 Feet
I’m writing this from a bar…that’s floating somewhere over Greenland. I just enjoyed a complimentary 3 course meal with wine, cheesecake, tea, and Baileys to top things off. After lunch, I finished editing my … Read on...
Here’s Why Client-Side Rendering Won
A decade ago, nearly everyone was rendering their web applications on the server using technologies like ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Java, and PHP.
Then handy libraries like jQuery showed up, and suddenly server-side rendering everything didn’t necessarily make sense anymore. … Read on...
The JavaScript Starter Kit Manifesto
My talk from Nodevember just went live on YouTube! This is my sales pitch: Starting from scratch today in JavaScript is crazy. The solution? Your team needs a JavaScript Starter Kit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGCWal_JWek
I’d love to hear you feedback on the … Read on...
Why Do Developers Run Macs?
I spoke at Fluent conference in San Francisco in March of 2015. I looked out in the crowd as I was setting up and saw this:
A Week with the New Macbook Pro with Touch Bar
I purchased the new Macbook Pro (MBP for short, below) with Touch Bar one week ago. I chose the maxed out “standard” model for $2,799 at the local Apple store: 15″ i7/2.7/16gb/512gb. I also own an early 2015 13″ Macbook … Read on...
Building a JavaScript Development Environment – Live on Pluralsight!
I just published my newest course on Pluralsight! Building a JavaScript application from scratch today is overwhelming. You have to make decisions about package management, bundling, linting, transpiling, automated testing, and more.
In fact, there are over 40 decisions … Read on...
Want to Code Faster? Timebox Impediments
Confession: Last week I burned an entire morning configuring SSH key authentication on our Enterprise Github account. I tried everything I could think of, but continued to receive authentication errors. When I was finally exhausted and out of ideas, I … Read on...
React Binding Patterns: 5 Approaches for Handling `this`
JavaScript’s this keyword behavior has confused developers for ages.
Coding with binds is hard.
There are at least five ways to handle the this context in React. Let’s consider the merits of each approach.
I Don’t Do Q&A at the End of Conference Talks. Here’s Why.
I’m admittedly in the minority:
At the end of a conference or user group talk, how should the speaker handle questions?
— Cory House (@housecor) July 1, 2016
Q&A is so common that speakers do it by reflex. The moment … Read on...