Cory House

When React was released, many people took one look at JSX and lost their minds.

I just wrapped up six months of hard work authoring my new Pluralsight course “Building Applications with React and Flux“.

It’s live!

If you need a cabin, why start with a mere pile of logs?

There are dozens of solid ways to level up as a developer.

I’ve both taken and created a lot of coding interviews throughout the years.

Disclaimer: While I’ve experimented with MongoDB, I haven’t deployed it to production.

I’ve spent the last many years religiously honoring the principle of separation of concerns.

When working with RequireJS, you’re likely to run across two modules that need to reference each other.

Have you ever thought about how many HTTP requests your app is wasting?

As a frequent conference presenter and attendee, I often see live code walk-throughs.

As a frequent conference presenter and attendee, I often see live code walk-throughs.

Team Foundation Server (TFS) continues to improve, but one area I’ve struggled recently is performance.

I’m really excited about the new HTML5 Web Components Standard.

I just resolved an odd behavior that tripped me up.

tldr; NDC was amazing!

I’ve been enjoying the back and forth regarding the Death of TDD on the interwebs.

One year ago, I started a large Single Page Application (SPA) project.

Standards might not be exciting, but man, they’re important.

A friend of mine brought up a common struggle for many software developers, particularly independent consultants: How do you influence your clients to demand th…

Imagine you’re dropped in a new position with no one there to help provide a smooth knowledge transition.

In previous parts of this series, we outlined a simple two step process for being a lean software architect: Build the simplest thing that could possibly work F…

In part one of this series, we outlined some specific examples of complexities that today’s software architects may consider.

Okay, so it was only a few months ago I was rambling on about how I am quite happy with my four year old desktop replacement style Dell laptop.

I recently decided it’s time to pickup a better machine for traveling and working unplugged.

An architect’s job is to manage complexity, not increase it.

I just wrapped up presenting two sessions at Codemash and I’ve never learned more about how to improve from a single session.

At a certain point (perhaps sooner than you think), becoming more technically competent isn’t going to change the trajectory of your life.

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for.

Anyone who knows me well knows the one technical topic I’m unapologetically religious about is the importance of clean code.

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for.

From time to time, I run into people who are interested in breaking into programming.

Sure, well-named variables and functions are important in all programming languages.

Today’s developers are cursed blessed with a massive list of libraries and technologies for solving problems.

So you’re building a modern web app?

Single page applications pose a unique and interesting set of problems.

In web apps it’s helpful to warn the user if they attempt to navigate away after making changes without hitting save.

When debugging JavaScript on a page with frames, it’s easy to find yourself running commands in the console in the wrong frame.

When doing front-end dev, I set breakpoints in Chrome all the time.

I enjoy shopping around for computer equipment and like Joel Spolsky, I’m a big believer in using the best tools money can buy.

This was my first time attending CodepaLOUsa, and I was not disappointed.

The Knockout MVVM framework makes it dirt simple to serialize your ViewModels to JSON: ko.toJSON(viewModel); However, if you’re wondering why some observables a…

Rethinking Enterprise – Ted Neward Ted started the day off with a bang.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with many exceptionally talented developers over the years.

When working in a strongly typed language like C#, I prefer to avoid being “stringly typed“.

With Halloween nearly upon us, it seems appropriate to discuss a widespread problem in software development: zombie code.

It’s been over a decade since Roy Fielding wrote his seminal dissertation on Representation State Transfer (REST).

I’m a big believer in PDD.

Visual Studio doesn’t offer an easy way to locate the current file you’re editing in the Solution Explorer on demand.

“Just write it quick and dirty.