Alex Pop's Blog

  After a period of silent and sustained effort I am happy to anounce that my newest book "Learning Underscore.js" has entered its production stage and it is available to pre-order on my publisher website or on the Amazon.com website with delivery in a couple of weeks.  In our ever changing software development landscape 2015 seems to be a great year for JavaScript. A couple of major events raised the profile of JavaScript for me: the release of its final specificatio...

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  My book Learning AngularJS for .NET Developers (announced here) was published today and it offers a free chapter called "Testing and Debugging AngularJS Applications" available here.
  This chapter showcases some of the first examples available of integrating Karma and Protractor test runners for AngularJS in Visual Studio through Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.
  Karma and Protractor are test runners that were built specifically for testing AngularJS applicatio...

  My book Learning AngularJS for .NET Developers (announced here) was published today and it offers a free chapter called "Testing and Debugging AngularJS Applications" available here.
  This chapter showcases some of the first examples available of integrating Karma and Protractor test runners for AngularJS in Visual Studio through Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.
  Karma and Protractor are test runners that were built specifically for testing AngularJS applicatio...

UPDATE: The book was launched on 25/07/2014 and it has a free chapter "Testing and debugging AngularJS applications" that is described here.

My blog was a bit quiet in the past 6 months and I had a good reason for this. Since February I am working on a book called "Learning AngularJS for .NET developers" covering the intersection between AngularJS, ServiceStack, ASP.NET MVC and ... Node.js.
The book is an expansion of my previous blog post Using AngularJS with ServiceStack while keep...

UPDATE: This post is now only valid for ServiceStack v3. ServiceStack v4 has now built in support for a Windows Authentication Provider: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/release-notes.md#windows-auth-provider-for-aspnet .

  I mentioned in a previous post the productivity gains on the server side front when using the excellent ServiceStack framework. In this post I want to present a starter application that relies on AngularJS and ServiceStack to pro...

  In a previous post I mentioned  a couple of improvements that the new "apps for SharePoint" model brings for the wider web development community. After developing a couple of web applications using this model I want to elaborate on the new technologies and practices that it made possible.  First a quick overview of the new development model. This model does not use the SharePoint server side libraries and it does not require to develop your application on a computer with Shar...

I am using the ServiceStack web framework with great success for almost a year and I want to expand  on why I have chosen it, its benefits and why it should be an essential part of  your software toolbox.

  Building modern web applications is challenging due to the rapid rate of innovation within the industry. JavaScript frameworks have gained momentum and a significant number of client side web frameworks are now replacing or at least complementing established server side web f...

 A while ago I presented an automated testing overview which was geared towards developers at first. Following initial feedback I realized that I needed to provide a wider context where I explain the immediate business benefits that automated testing brings to the table. This post is a long delayed accompanying note for the first part of my original presentation.

  There is lot of published literature, together with many blog entries and tutorials around the topic of automated softwa...

    At this point in time (early 2013) almost all the Microsoft web frameworks and libraries are distributed as open source software: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Api, Entity Framework, Reactive Extensions, SignalR. You can contribute back to the original source or you can fork it and start developing and distributing your own flavour.
If you are a .NET web developer you are now using an open source development stack.

    On the application server front Windows Azure can boot up...