Phil Duba

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• Adventures In Angular, Episode 224: The Irrational Demonization Of Two-Way Data-Binding In Angular With Ben Nadel

  Posted on Feb 9, 2019 at 10:39 AM

  I loved your Harvey Dent analogy, you're so right, and I'm right there with you.... read more »

• Nerd Life Balance: The Art Of Open Sourcing Your Life By Nick Floyd

  Posted on Aug 14, 2017 at 8:41 AM

  Looks like a good book I'll have to pick up. In my quest for better leadership, I've also been reading books that are really about self-internalization and understanding one's makeup and traits.... read more »

• Bane On Task Estimation

  Posted on Dec 15, 2015 at 3:31 PM

  @Ben, Yeah, we still get them to do but I think my manager has been at our place long enough to throw it back at them. It's on of the perks of just being a supervisor and not a manager, I can let him do all the uncomfortable work!... read more »

• Bane On Task Estimation

  Posted on Dec 15, 2015 at 8:55 AM

  We've actually stopped estimating lengths at work. We now put items in buckets based on perceived complexity and total effort that might be required. We don't set something as it will only take 6 hours to complete, instead it'll go into something like "Negligible" which means the total eff... read more »

• Bane On Task Estimation

  Posted on Dec 9, 2015 at 9:57 AM

  These quotes need to be on t-shirts... read more »

• Project HUGE: Building A Home Gym - Proof Of Concept

  Posted on Nov 9, 2015 at 9:01 AM

  Good to see you getting back into the working out. I just started back up again and was aided by work giving out those resistance bands. Bought a few accessories for it and trying to devote about 15-20 minutes each night to doing something.... read more »

• Using ngRepeat With ngInclude Hurts Performance In AngularJS

  Posted on Dec 10, 2014 at 11:01 AM

  The more I get into directives, the more I realize the power they hold.... read more »

• Experimenting With Compress() And Uncompress() In MySQL

  Posted on Jul 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM

  Awesome find. We've got a text heavy app that is going to be expanded so I may just need to implement this.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 11, 2013 at 8:50 AM

  @Ben, Ah, FW/1, also at the top of the list to get my head around.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 10, 2013 at 9:55 AM

  @Ben, I was thinking of this when I had an ahah moment. Would it make sense to have these files living within your app server, so you would link to a .cfm or .php or something that would ensure the current session was authorized to grab it. Your initial page would almost determine does the session e... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM

  @Matt, I have the same questions when it comes to more complex applications and whether they should be single-page, a collection of single-page apps, etc. That's where I really struggle in all this move to front-end development.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 1:15 PM

  Any particular tutorials one should start with that will help get a noob up to speed or comfortable?... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM

  Thanks for the input Ben. We're (and me personally) struggling with "we need to do more front-end/JavaScript development but where do we start. Doing simple jQuery type things is ok, but we need to get into technology agnostic front-ends, i.e., I'm not building the app in CF or ASP.NET, etc., a... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM

  Ben, since I'm still teetering on where to go with my JavaScript framework knowledge quest, do you think it's worthwhile to learn Backbone then AngularJS or just go to AngularJS and look at Backbone when Angular doesn't make sense?... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 10:48 AM

  @Ben, Since you and I have the same types of questions, I'm just going to let you post since you have the blog and I don't, :). I'll just follow the answers, :)... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM

  I'm subscribing to this because I have the same exact question. I have a feeling it revolves around controller event chaining, meaning you have one event for primary and one for secondary and a third that chains the two together for output.... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM

  @Dan, Oh, I questioned that during my training and am definitely taking a wait and see approach. The instructors did seem to follow a pattern of "nothing passed in" which you check an error type to which the code should respond, pass in a value but blank, then pass in whatever you really ... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM

  @Ben, That's my understanding. Let me try and pull up an example and code from the training. i was using the before function for all initializations of the component I was testing.... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:32 AM

  I hate to nitpick here as someone who themselves are just getting into TDD and unit testing, but I was told that each function should have one and only one test in it. Meaning your testDecode function would really be something like testDecodeNoNumber, testDecodeOneNumber, testDecodeMultipleNumbers o... read more »

• Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship By Robert C. Martin

  Posted on Jun 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM

  To further our Twitter discussion, the guys teaching our TDD class recommended the TDD by Example book by Kent Beck first, followed by Clean Code for our further reading. I got about 5 chapters into Clean Code before the class started.... read more »