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How I Navigated to AngularJS

This article is about the process I’ve gone through of selecting AngularjS as my MV* JavaScript framework of choice. I will discuss the evolution I went through from learning jQuery, Knockout, Backbone.js, and eventually settling on AngularJS. I’ve been programming … Continue reading

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Setting-up AngularJS, Angular Seed, Node.js and Karma

I’ve used AngularJS for a few months, but I have no knowledge when it comes to testing AngularJS apps. I have a subscription to PluralSight.com and wanted to go through their online video training course for AngularJS. Specifically with this … Continue reading

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Table Scans and Index Scans affects more than the table they access

SQL Server only queries data in memory (data cache). If the data needed is not cached, SQL Server will retrieve the data from disk and load it to data cache, and then SQL Server will use the data from the … Continue reading

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How-to deploy application to Windows Azure Compute Emulator with CSRUN

It’s a pain that every time that I want to start a Windows Azure application locally, I must first start Visual Studio and start the debugger. In this post I will describe how to start an application in Windows Azure … Continue reading

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Re-Learning Backbone.js – Require.js (AMD and Shim)

In this post we are going to learn how to use Require.js with Backbone.js and Underscore.js This post build on the Re-Learning Backbone.js series. As usual, the examples in this tutorial are extremely simple. We have one goal here and … Continue reading

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Browser Script Loading

In this post I will discuss how scripts are loaded and executed by the browser. It’s common to have scripts loaded by the browser by using the script tag (<script>) with a src (source) attribute. In the old days, the … Continue reading

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Re-Learning Backbone.js – Nested Views

Previously in this series we have learned about views and collection. Now lets learn about creating nested views based on a collection. Most if not all of the concepts learned in the previous Re-Learning Backgone.js tutorials will be used in … Continue reading

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Re-Learning Backbone.js – Events (Pub-Sub)

Since we are here to learn about Backbone.js, we are going to use the built in feature of Backbone called Events. Backbone.js Events is a feature that provides a Pub-Sub. As usually I’m going to attempt to keep this a … Continue reading

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Re-Learning Backbone.js – Collections

Backbone.js collections are used to store and manage a group of similar or related objects. If all we wanted to do was store related objects we could use a JavaScript array, but Backbone.js Collection provides an infrastructure that allows us … Continue reading

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SQL Server Create Index – sys.dm_exec_requests Percent Completed

I had an observation today in regards to creating an index that you may find interesting.  Per SQL Server 2008 (not R2) documentation for sys.dm_exec_requests it mentions that percent_completed works for the following commands: ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE AUTO_SHRINK option with … Continue reading

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