Had a fun time presenting with Adam Stephensen on "Angualar 2 war stories". You can get the slides here http://bit.ly/angular2warstoriesbnedotnet...

Had a great turn out and a lot of fun at Angular Hack Day Brisbane. It was great to present on Angular 2 and testing. You can find the slides and links to code and video here http://bit.ly/testingangular2brisbane2016 It was awesome to have the whole SSW Brisbane crew there to present. Thanks to my team "Da Programmers" we did not win this trophy but in my mind we did! And thanks to all the hackers who made it a great day!...

Had a great turn out and a lot of fun at Angular Hack Day Melbourne. It was great to present and spend most of the day teaching....

NDC Sydney was awesome. It was great to meet some new friends and see some awesome talks. Can not wait for the next NDC. Highlights: Helping Scott Allen with his two-day Angular 2 workshop. Presenting on Angular 2 with Adam Stephensen. You can get the slides from the link below, and I will share the video when it is live. Link to presentation Running some ask me anythings and interviewing some of my favorite tech celebrities. Post-conference hike in the Blue Mountains with Jakob. Figure: Scott Allens workshop Figure: Presenting with Adam Stepehsen. Figure: Ask me anything session with Steven Sanderson. Figure: Our "Little book of Angular2" Figure: Our "Hiking in the Blue Mountains."...

Everyday I do more time in Visual Studio Code than Visual Studio and now with VS Code extensions it is even more awesome and it starts to be an everyday work tool for me. The following extensions I use every day with Angular 2 enjoy. 1. Relative Path 2. launcher 3. Wallaby.js 4. Angular 2 TypeScript Snippets 5. tslint 6. Git History Ok this makes it six but hey this one is a goodie!!!! If you like these or want to suggest others please leave a comment below!...

To keep a good separation of concerns between your AngularJS controllers and your data service layers you should always call an AngularJS service or factory from your Kendo datasource logic. Many demonstrations show a hard coded string in your Angular controllers calling your API but this means you will be making data API calls from your controllers, which is bad for several reasons: 1. You will end up with many API data calls from different controllers versus all being in your one location. 2. Your controllers will be harder to unit test. 3. If you want to call the same API endpoint somewhere else in your application you now have two place with this hard coded string, that might need...