Antony Denyer

When using the angularjs $q library with ES3 browsers (IE8 etc) you get an ‘Expected identifier’ error when you try and use the catch method on angularjs $q library. This is because catch is a reserved word in ES3 and reserved words are not supported as property names in ES3. To get round the problem you can access the function using square bracket notation. Personally I find this kind of syntax rather ugly. [Read More]

When I first got stated using AngularJS and I had a few troubles with mocking. Primarily with injecting a mock into a controller. [Read More]

Do you need a computer science degree to be a developer? This is a cross post from something I wrote whilst at Makers Academy [Read More]

One of my biggest annoyances about nuget and powershell in general is the lack of universal support for unix like features such as pipe and grep. Lets say you have a solution with multiple projects in and you want to update to the latest versions of your internal dependencies, you’d proabably do something like. [Read More]

Unix has some great tools like chef to help you declaratively describe the configuration of your server. It means that you can almost guarantee the state of your servers and there’s no need to log on to each server and manually configure them, freeing up people to do more interesting things with their lives. [Read More]