I’ve both taken and created a lot of coding interviews throughout the years. And I’ve learned there are many ways to screw it up. The worst tests feel like a way to make the interviewer feel smart by probing for … Read on...
Author Archives: Cory House
Why I’m Not Sold on MongoDB
Disclaimer: While I’ve experimented with MongoDB, I haven’t deployed it to production. These are my honest reservations that keep me from deploying a production app in Mongo. I welcome comments from those who have spent time in the trenches.
There … Read on...
Is Separating HTML and JavaScript Harmful?
I’ve spent the last many years religiously honoring the principle of separation of concerns. Separating concerns produces code that’s easier to read, maintain, and test. Right? Well, as I’ve found, virtually every “best practice” has exceptions. We have to … Read on...
7 Ways to Handle Circular Dependencies in RequireJS
When working with RequireJS, you’re likely to run across two modules that need to reference each other. When you create a circular reference using the standard RequireJS define statement on both sides, the module that’s loaded last fails and is … Read on...
Cache Busting via Gulp.js
Have you ever thought about how many HTTP requests your app is wasting? Many developers think the native caching mechanisms of browsers are sufficient. However, did you know every time a page is loaded, an HTTP request is still typically … Read on...
6 Quick Tips for Presenting Code in Visual Studio
As a frequent conference presenter and attendee, I often see live code walk-throughs. There are a variety of tweaks you can make to optimize the Visual Studio experience for presenting code to others. It’s important to minimize visual distractions, size … Read on...
Two Quick TFS Performance Tips
Team Foundation Server (TFS) continues to improve, but one area I’ve struggled recently is performance. I work in a very large codebase that knocks up against the 100,000 file limit with a single branch (yes, that’s a smell of bigger … Read on...
Shadow DOM vs iframes
I’m really excited about the new HTML5 Web Components Standard. The Shadow DOM is particularly interesting, as it finally gives us encapsulated markup and styling. This should radically decrease the complexity of our CSS and help us finally design … Read on...
Knockout Bindings are Evaluated Left to Right
I just resolved an odd behavior that tripped me up. Have you ever attached a click handler to a checkbox/radio with Knockout and wondered why the old value is received in the click handler? Well here’s the solution. In Knockout, … Read on...
An Epic Week of Development in Norway
tldr; NDC was amazing! I was a guest on .NET Rocks! My recorded sessions from NDC in Oslo, Norway are below. And I finally got to meet Uncle Bob!
I just had an amazing experience at my first ever … Read on...