I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections from the past year, I thought I would do something different and post twelve key learnings and observations looking back over my career. I have chosen twelve, not because there are only twelve, but because it fits well with the theme of twelve years.
Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support. This video provides an overview of some key benefits, including Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Team Services, Pluralsight training, and HackHands live programming help
For us, being a small team, sharing code and high performance was key to helping us make a successful app with the hybrid approach. To us, this was the right decision, as it allowed us to scale to all major platforms with only 1 engineer and 1 designer.
AngularJS is a huge framework with that already has many performance enhancements built in, but they can’t solve all our problems. No matter how fast the framework, we can all create sluggish code through bad practices and not understanding key concepts that help it perform well.
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