John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Recently I had a great opportunity to sit down with my good friend and expert Angular developer Ward Bell to film a Play by Play for Pluralsight on Angular 2. You can watch Ward and I build an Angular 2 app from scratch [http://jpapa.me/pbpa2ward], and see us explaining the decisions we make as the
Solving deep technical problems is fun. But by taking a step back and examining how we got here can be just as fun and useful. We pride ourselves on our technical abilities. But an even more important skill we can have is not technical, it is a pragmatic skill: we can ask "why?". Why is
Why should we be using Angular 2? What's all the chatter about? It can be difficult to keep up with the fast paced Web, so we all need tools to help us filter out the noise and focus on the things that add value. That was our intention behind this webcast on Angular 2 from Pluralsight [https://w
What happens when a new version of node [https://nodejs.org/en/] is released? What if you need version 0.10.36 for one app and 4.4.2 for another? Did you know version 6 is out now too? Yikes! it would be great if we could manage multiple versions of node on the same computer. Well, we can with n [h
Last week I had the privilege of coding an Angular 2 app in front of the live audience at the 3rd annual ngConf [http://ng-conf.org] event. I had a lot of fun and, perhaps luckily, I didn't make any major mistakes :) More importantly, I believe this session shines a light on the seven most funda
