Rob Janssen

10 Reasons Why Laravel is Better Than CodeIgniter

Yep another post on why you should switch to Laravel from CodeIgniter. I’ve been using CodeIgniter for about three years now and still continue to do so on some projects. However since I decided to finally give Laravel a whirl, it’s been no looking back.

JavaScript Promises ... In Wicked Detail

I’ve been using promises in my JavaScript code for a while now. They can be a little brain bending at first. I now use them pretty effectively, but when it came down to it, I didn’t fully understand how they work. This article is my resolution to that.

Tips for building Nuget packages

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple weeks building and consuming Nuget packages on real projects. I’ve picked up a few tips that, while not mind-blowing, should help you get beyond the simple scenarios you see in most demos. I’ll refer to an example .

20 Excellent Open Source Tools for Developers

Open source applications with their source code is freely and readily available, for copyright holders by which to modify and or distribute to anyone and for any purpose.

Optimizing AngularJS: 1200ms to 35ms

Edit: Due to the level of interest, we’ve released the source code to the work described here: https://github.com/scalyr/angular. Also, some good discussion at Hacker News. Here at Scalyr, we recently embarked on a full rewrite of our web client.

C# Fundamentals: Parameters Passing Nuances

Last week I went into quite a bit of detail on C# struct (here) and the consequences  of using a struct versus a class to represent complex data types.

Stock photos that don’t suck

Finding great stock photos is a pain. You’re left with either low-res amateur photos, people wearing cheesy headsets, or photos that are out of budget for the project you’re working on. Below is an ongoing list (so bookmark it) of the best stock photo sites I’ve come across.

Floating point error is the least of my worries

The context of the above quote was Sussman’s presentation We really don’t know how to compute. It was a great presentation and I’m very impressed by Sussman. But I take exception to his quote.

Strangest Things In The Universe Documentary | 2014

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Life in The Universe Documentary | HD 1080p

NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://goo.gl/f1fUfl Like me on Facebook: http://goo.gl/QITCkN Follow me on Twitter: http://goo.gl/X7abM This documentary was made, prod...

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

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