Written by Matt Briggs
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on Jun. 1, 2015
We work in a strange industry. There is a much higher need for developers than can be satisfied by new developers coming into the field. This is a problem that has existed for years, and it is getting worse as time goes on. We have a serious shortage of talent to meet the demand, but our industry…
Written by Matt Briggs
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on Sep. 9, 2014
In 2005, Ruby on Rails was a breath of fresh air, and brought a revolution in how we build applications on the web. It had cutting edge ideas, and real solutions to the problems people were facing at the time. That was 8 years ago. If rails were to launch in todays world, would anyone even notice?…
Written by Matt Briggs
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on Sep. 3, 2014
TL;DR: I am a developer with a Java / C# / JavaScript / Rails background, and am building a small piece of infrastructure with Clojure at work. So far it has been a joy, and exceeded expectations. I feel like I need to set the stage for this blog post. The first Clojure book I read was Stuart Sierr…
Written by Matt Briggs
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on Mar. 10, 2014
Darts history is a little spotty, to put it lightly. When it came out, Google billed it as the JavaScript killer (which it’s not), followed by saying it’s not the JavaScript killer, it’s going to be the dominant mobile platform. Then it wasn’t about mobile, or replacing JS anymore, it was a compile…
Written by Matt Briggs
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on Jan. 22, 2014
The number one question I see over and over with programmers new to angular is “how do I organize my code?”. I think that this is because the way you organize sample code is completely different then simple code, which again, is totally different then a complex application, and those transitions ar…
Written by Matt Briggs
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on Jan. 22, 2014
Transclusion is almost a gift to people criticizing Angular. It sounds incredibly complicated and computer-science-y. The spotty documentation around the topic and mysterious API only adds to the illusion of what a complicated concept this is. In practice, transclusion is a fairly simple concept,…