Posts tagged with 'Web Development'

Your Developers are Miserable and Are Going to Quit

Dear Software Development Managers, I've been lucky enough to work with a fair few development teams over the years, both here and in Canada (you'd have to ask them if that feeling is reciprocated). As well as getting involved with some good projects and taking part in a multitude of technical discussions, I've also…

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Writing Cleaner AngularJS with TypeScript and ControllerAs

Our team made the move to TypeScript and Angular at the tail end of last year. I'd had a look at Angular a year or so ago but struggled to get my head around the excessive usage of $scope and the nesting of $parent items that needed to be traversed. Since then (with version 1.2.0), Angular now supports Controller As…

So You’re a Professional Web Developer Are you?

Over the past few months, I’ve been helping out with recruitment for one of our offices by putting together a coding test and then marking the results. It’s been eye-opening. Also part soul destroying and tear inducing. At one point I stopped to look for the hidden camera, expecting a ghostly Jeremy Beadle to appear…