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Aurelia Released and A New CLI

Brett M. Nelson - Sunday, August 7, 2016

Recently Aurelia anounced it 1.0.0 release. This means it is no longer in Beta and they don't foresee any breaking changes in the foreseeable future. Part of the announcement covers an introduction...

Aurelia Bundling

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, February 18, 2016

If you have been playing around with Aurelia like I have you may reach a point where you would like to stop sending almost 3MB to load the simplest of sites. Well if you have reached that point you...

Cordova - Single Page Application Setup

Brett M. Nelson - Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Last post we did a set up for using Aurelia with Apache Cordova. One thing we didn't cover is that before you start your Single Page Application (spa) you should wait till the device is ready. Not ...

Cordova - Setting Up to Use Aurelia

Brett M. Nelson - Friday, February 5, 2016

We have looked at setting up Cordova and building and running on Android in Cordova - Intro and Cordova - Build Android lets take a look at how to use a single page application framework like Aurel...

Cordova - Build Android

Brett M. Nelson - Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Last time in a Cordova - Intro we created a simple app that used the stock assets and ran it in our browser. Now let's get the Android SDK so we can build and run it on our device or emulator. Down...

Cordova - Intro

Brett M. Nelson - Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Sometimes you want to build a mobile app. This could be because you have an idea you want to put to use on your phone or it could be because your boss said it's time to make an app. If your focus h...

ASP.NET 5 Static Files - Enabling Default Files

Brett M. Nelson - Saturday, January 9, 2016

Sometimes you have static resources in your webroot, wwwroot by default, that you would like to have served when a request is made to that path. For instance if you go to the root of a site you exp...

New Year, New You

Brett M. Nelson - Monday, January 4, 2016

It's that time of the year when people are retrospective about the previous year and at the same time resolving affect positive changes in oneself. As a software developer one way we can help ourse...

Ludum Dare 34

Brett M. Nelson - Monday, December 14, 2015

This past weekend was Ludum Dare 34. If you are not familiar with the Ludum Dare, it's a game jam that occurs 3 times a year where participants create a game based on a theme that was voted on lead...

TypeScript - Compile with Gulp

Brett M. Nelson - Saturday, December 12, 2015

Some times you just want to make a few quick changes to your code and not have to wait for your full IDE to start-up. At those times you have have to use the command line to compile your TypeScrip...

TypeScript - What's New in 1.7

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, December 3, 2015

This week Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 was released and with it TypeScript 1.7. To get the update to TypeScript install the update for Visual Studio. Then you can use the following new features: O...

MS Connect 2015 and Aurelia Beta

Brett M. Nelson - Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Hey how is everyone doing this week? This week is a short one for me do to the holidays here so I thought I would give any regular readers and update of what happened last week as it seemed a littl...