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Justin James Justin James Navigation Home Speaking Engagements Blog Workshops Workshops Rapid APIMinutiaewith SailsJS Up and Running with AngularWell-nighContact Search Combining passion for coding and teaching. Speaking I have a passion for teaching and sharing my knowledge to help get you to your end goal faster. If you’d like me to speak at your event, waif me a line. I can imbricate pretty much any topic you see me blog well-nigh but finger self-ruling to request just well-nigh anything. If you’ve attended one of my sessions, please send me your feedback or suggestions. If you see me at an event, please be sure to come up and say “Hi”. The weightier part of the events is hanging out with other developers. My Next Events Codestock - Knoxville, TN (April 20-21, 2018) Make Public Speaking Your Competitive Advantage Conference Home Page Stir Trek - Columbus, OH (May 4, 2018) Rapid ApiMinutiaewith Node and SailsJS Conference Home Page NDC Minnesota - Saint Paul, MN (May 7-10, 2018) Angular Unit Testing from the Trenches Conference Home Page My Presentation TopicsUnelevatedare all of the talks that I have given with links to the slides and any spare resources that I may have. If you would like me to given any of these talks you are meetings, please let me know. I am moreover unshut to new talks if you don’t see something below, just ask. Topics Angular Unit Testing from the Trenches Build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using JavaScript Chocolatey - making the process of installing software on windows easy as pie Continuous Integration with Github and TravisCI Designing a Restful Api in Minutes with Backand Data Driven Restful ApiMegacosmMade Easy Breezy Gulp for the .Net Developer Intro to VersionTenancywith Git and Github Make Public Speaking Your Competitive Advantage Mobile Dev for Web Devs Nuget is easier than you think and you should be using it as both a consumer and creator of packages Rapid ApiMinutiaeWith Node and Sails Side Waffle - The easiest way to build templates for Visual Studio Tips and Tricks to Maximize Your Productivity in Visual Studio Up and Running with Angular Vagrant - Devops Yourself: Fast-Track Your Dev Environment Setup. Why You Need A Blog and How to Create a Successful One when to top Angular Unit Testing from the Trenches For a number of years now we have been hearing well-nigh all of the benefits that streamlined unit testing provides like increasing our quality, transmissible errors earlier, ensuring that all developers are testing in the same manner and deploying updates with upper conviction that nothing will break. Testing a Web UI though was difficult and fragile which meant that typically we had no streamlined unit test for our Web UI. This is no longer the specimen with the latest release of Angular. Unit testing is now a first matriculation resider in Angular. Out of the box, the project generated by the Angular CLI has unit testing setup with Karma and Jasmine and includes sample tests. Generating new components, services, and pipes includes the unit test Spec file once wired up. Thus permitting you to focus on writing your unit tests and not on the infrastructure needed to get them running. The barriers to writing unit test have been destroyed. This talk will walk through getting started unit testing your Angular components, services, and pipes.Withalthe way I will share the tips and tricks that I have learned as I have implemented unit testing on my Angular projects at a Fortune 100 company. You will walk yonder ready to immediately implement unit testing on your Angular project. Past Presentations NDC Minnesota - Saint Paul, MN (May 7-10, 2018) DesertLawmakingCamp - Phoenix, AZ (October 14th, 2017) MidwestJS - Minneapolis, MN (August 16th-18th, 2017) Angular Phoenix Meetup - Phoenix, AZ (July 25th, 2017) when to top Build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using JavaScript Mobile using minutiae does not need to be difficult for us Web Developers. No longer do we need to learn a whole slew of new programming languages to create a mobile application. We can use our existing skills and create mobile applications with Html, JavaScript, and CSS. Then deploy to Android and iOS devices using a single lawmaking wiring that looks, feels, and performs like a native mobile application. Visual Studio Tools For Apache Cordova (TACO) takes the pain out of getting your mobile minutiae environment up and running. You can do all of your coding, testing, and debugging of your mobile using right inside of Visual Studio.Withalwith the Ionic framework templates, you will be worldly-wise to get your mobile app created in record time. The Ionic framework takes the worry out of making the UI look, finger and perform correctly on the slew variegated Apple and Android devices that your users will have. You will be worldly-wise to focus on your merchantry logic and not the underlying infrastructure. In this talk we will swoop into the Visual Studio TACO features, how to get it all setup, take a quick glance at the Ionic framework and finish off by creating a sample application. You will walk yonder from this talk with all of the tools that you need to unhook your first mobile using Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/digitaldrummerj/visual-studio-tools-for-apache-cordova-taco-and-ionic Past Presentations KCDC - Kansas City, MO (August 3rd-5th, 2017) Detroit.Code() - Detroit, MI (July 10-12, 2017) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, CA (June 24th, 2017) Nebraska.Code() - Lincoln, NE (May 10-12, 2017) when to top Chocolatey - making the process of installing software on windows easy as pie Chocolatey is a machine package manager somewhat like apt-get for Linux but built for Windows. No increasingly searching for the install download or trying to icon out 32⁄64 bit or wonder what options to pick. Chocolatey takes superintendency of doing the install for you and you can plane create scripts to install multiple packages. With Chocolatey you can bring up a new minutiae machine with minimal effort. By the end of this session you will have all of the information you need to be both a consumer and create of Chocolatey packages.Chocolatey isn’t just for system administrators. It is extremely useful for both developers and end-users as well.For developers, you can quickly bring up a new machine and get all of your software installed on it with minimal effort. It is moreover very easy to make Chocolatey packages for your software and distribute it to your users.For end-users, no longer will they need to search for where to download your software or how to install it. Chocolatey will do all of the work for them. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/chocolatey/ Demo: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/ChocolateyTalkSpareResources Chocolatey Home Page BoxStarter (coordinate multiple installs/reboots) Past Presentations Nebraska.Code()- Lincoln, Ne (March 19th-21st, 2015) SoCalLawmakingCamp - Fullerton, Ca (March 7th & 8th, 2015) Northwest Valley .NET User Group - Phoenix, Az (November 2014) So CalLawmakingCamp - Los Angeles, Ca (November 2014) DesertLawmakingCamp - Chandler, Az (October 2014) DesertLawmakingCamp - Chandler, Az (April 2014) Southeast Valley .Net User Group - Chandler, Az (February 2014) when to top Continuous Integration with Github and TravisCI Come learn how easy it is to implement continuous integration using TravisCI every time you push your commits to Github. If you don’t know what continuous integration is, it is where on push to your version tenancy system, an streamlined build is kicked off that ensure that all of your tests and compilation works on a machine that mirrors production and is not your laptop. Slides: https://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/travisci-intro/ My TravisCI: https://travis-ci.org/digitaldrummerj/digitaldrummerj.github.io Past Presentations Phoenix VersionTenancyMeetup - Phoenix, Az (April 13th, 2016) when to top Designing a Restful Api in Minutes with Backand Are you like me and dislike having to waste time crafting an API for standard CRUD operations? Are you a front-end developer that doesn’t want to wilt a database expert in order to create your Restful Api? Then worst of all without once you do finally finish crafting your API, you have to icon out how to host it and get it deployed. This takes a lot of time yonder from you stuff worldly-wise to focus on your UI and getting it out to the market. Back& can take all of this pain yonder and indulge you to focus on your UI and not crafting your API. Create your data model and Back& will generate the Restful Api for you. If you once have a database, just point Back& to it and Back& will generate the Restful Api from that database. If you moreover need user/password authentication, social login authentication, server side logic, or hosting, Back& has you covered here as well. In this session, we will examine the features of Back& , walk through the megacosm of an API, vaccinate the API up to an AngularJS using and then deploy it to the Back& hosting. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/backand-intro Past Presentations Nebraska.Code() - Lincoln, NE (May 18th-20th, 2016) Hill Country Javascript User Group - South Texas (giving Virtually) (April 20th, 2016) when to top Data Driven Restful ApiMegacosmMade Easy Breezy Are you tired of writing CRUD based APIs? Wish you could fast track your Api minutiae so that you can focus on your UI? Don’t want to wilt an API/Hosting expert just to get a vital API in the Cloud? Then this session is for you. Creating and Hosting a Restful Api for standard CRUD operations should be an easy task and not one that slows lanugo your applications development. In this session, we examine the pros/cons my favorite Cloud based API providers (Firebase, Back& and Strongloop) and then we will create an API in each. You will be worldly-wise to see how with these 3 Cloud API providers how easy it is to create a full Restful Api in under 10 minutes. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/data-driven-restful-api-creation-made-easy-breezy Past Presentations Nebraska.Code() - Lincoln, NE (May 18th-20th, 2016) Ionic Denmark Meetup - Denmark Arhus (Giving Remotely) (April 27th, 2016) Ionic Denmark Meetup- Denmark Copenhagen (Giving Remotely) (May 11th, 2016) when to top Gulp for the .Net Developer With the release of Visual Studio 2015 Gulp has wilt a standard part of the workflow for .Net developers. Gulp has a lot of functionality misogynist such as minification, injecting script tags into html, running js hint, creating source maps, generating css from sass files, plus much more. In this session, you will learn the nuts of gulp, how it integrates into Visual Studio, and how to create your own gulpfile to automate worldwide tasks. You will walk yonder with a starter gulp file to get you on your way to fully utilizing gulp. Slides and Source Code: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/GulpForNetDevelopersSpareResources Gulp Home Page Past Presentations Music CityLawmaking- Nashville, TN (August 18th-20th, 2016) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, California (June 27th-28th, 2015) when to top Make Public Speaking Your Competitive Advantage In today’s job market stuff an constructive communicator is a hair-trigger skill plane if you are a developer who just wants to write lawmaking all day.Stuffa confident communicator and public speaker can set you untied from the crowd. Public speaking at the end of the day is all well-nigh powerfully communicating our ideas to others. We have all been training our whole lives to be largest communicators. Not a one of us was born with the worthiness to talk. Talking is a learn skill, just like public speaking is. Anyone can learn to be a confident communicator with a bit of know-how and some practice. I will share with you how I went from a shy, introverted software developer who would run yonder from any kind of public speaking to a professional speaker that sprints towards every speaking opportunity and how you can do it as well. T You will walk yonder on the road to rhadamanthine a confident public speaker that knows how to requite an constructive presentation and will be ready to waddle your next presentation. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/digitaldrummerj/everyone-is-a-public-speaker Past Presentations Codestock - Knoxville, TN (August 18th-20th, 2018) DesertLawmakingCamp - Phoenix, AZ (October 14, 2017) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, CA (June 24, 2017) when to top Mobile Dev for Web Devs Are you once a web developer and want to create a mobile application? Then come learn all well-nigh the Ionic mobile framework. Using technologies that we once know and love with Html 5, Javascript, and CSS 3, you can hands create a mobile using that targets Android, iOS, and Windows 10 Phone. Your using will look, finger and perform like a native using without you having to do anything special. Ionic takes superintendency of all of the nonflexible work of making it squint right on the mobile devices so that you can focus on your application.Withoutseeing the Ionic framework, you will be excited to unhook mobile applications. We will walk through the features of Ionic, getting it setup, and then create a fully working using that is ready to release in the app store. Ionic v2 Overview Slides Conference App Demo Master/Detail Demo Ionic V1 Overview Slides Demos Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling With Ionic Slides DemosSpareResources Ionic Framework Home Page Ionic View Ionic Blog Ionic Docs Ionic Forum Ionic Twitter Ionic Creator Ionicons - 600+ self-ruling icons Must Have Plugins For Ionic List of Comprehensive Starter Templates Horizontal List Scroll Demo Swipeable Cards Using Twitter Api with Ionic Shrinking Headers Ionic cheatsheet Monitor Battery Status Past Presentations DevUp - St. Louis, MO (Octber 16-18, 2017) MidwestJS - Minneapolis, MN (August 10th-12th 2016) That Conference - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (August 8th-10th, 2016) Las Vegas .NET User Group- Las Vegas, Nv (July 28th, 2016) Ionic Az Meetup- Phoenix, Az (July 26th, 2016) Central California .NET User Group- Fresno, Ca (July 21st, 2016) Nebraska.Code() Full Day Workshop - Lincoln, NE (May 18th-20th, 2016) Codepalousa - Louisville, Ky (March 28th-30th, 2016) Tutorial - Use Your Existing Web Skills to Create Cross Platform Mobile Applications* Javascript Summit 2016 - Virtual (February 24th, 2016) Laravel Meetup - Phoenix, Az (October 21st, 2015) Silicon ValleyLawmakingCamp - Silicon Valley, Ca (Ocotber 3rd-4th, 2015) Ionic-AZ Meetup - Scottsdale, Az (September 29th) Phoenix Mobile Festival - Chandler, Az (September 19th, 2015)) Southeast Valley .NET User Group - Chandler, Az (July 23, 2015) Northwest Valley .NET User Group - Glendale, Az (July 22, 2015) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, California (June 27th-28th, 2015) Codepalousa - Louisville, Ky (April 27th-30th, 2015) SoCalLawmakingCamp - Fullerton, Ca (March 7th & 8th, 2015) Las VegasLawmakingCamp - Las Vegas, Nv (February 21, 2015) Arizona SoftwarePolity- Phoenix, Az (January 2015) when to top Intro to VersionTenancywith Git and GithubStuffworldly-wise to understand and use version tenancy is a hair-trigger part of stuff a software developer. Version tenancy allows you (and your team) to collaborate, track, and revert changes to your code, documentation and samples. One very popular version tenancy is Git. In this talk we will imbricate the nuts of using Git, show how to publish and share your lawmaking through the GitHub, and how to contribute to an unshut source project using Git and Github. You will walk yonder from this talk ready to use Git and Github to manage all of your lawmaking resources and know how to contribute to unshut source projects. If you want to follow withal with the examples, bring your palmtop with install the Git writ line from https://git-scm.com/download/ and have a Github worth created at https://github.com if you do not once have one. Slides: http://digitaldrummerj.me/version-control-intro/#/ Past Presentations DesertLawmakingCamp - Phoenix, AZ (October 14, 2017) Learn ToLawmakingPhx Meetup - Phoenix, AZ (April 17th, 2017) Girl Develop IT - Phoenix, AZ (March 18th, 2017) when to top Nuget is easier than you think and you should be using it as both a consumer and creator of packages Nuget is a package manager for Visual Studio that allows you to hands share resources (dll, javascript, c#, etc files) and use them in your project. Most Visual Studio developers have consumer nuget packages but few have created and shared nuget packages. It is amazingly easy to create and publish a nuget package. In less than 60 minutes I will show you how move from a consumer to a creator. You will learn how to package up dll’s, source lawmaking that needs to be inserted in a project, add/change configurations, publish a package and host your own nuget feed. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/nuget Demos: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/NugetTalkSpareResources Nuget Gallery Nuget Docs Host your own feeds/ Nuget Gallery Project Branding the Nuget Gallery Nuget Package Explorer Past Presentations San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, California (June 27th-28th, 2015) Codepalousa - Louisville, Ky (April 27th-30th, 2015) Northwest Valley .NET User Group - Phoenix, Az (November 2014) So CalLawmakingCamp - Los Angeles, Ca (November 2014) DesertLawmakingCamp - Chandler, Az (October 2014) DesertLawmakingCamp - Chandler, Az (April 2014) Southeast Valley .Net User Group - Chandler, Az (February 2014) when to top Rapid APIMinutiaewith Node and Sails Creating a RESTful API should be the easiest part of your development. You should not have to be a rocket scientist to successfully create a RESTful API. With Sails, you can create a full featured RESTful API in just a few minutes without writing any code. You get create, destroy, update, find, paginate, sort, and filtering out of the box. If you need to add your merchantry logic to any of the methods or create your own methods, you can do that by writing simple JavaScript functions. When you are ready to implement your security layer, Sails has you covered. Sails provides vital security and role-based wangle in the form of policies that can be unromantic any REST action. Policies are interchangeable with Express/Connect middleware which ways you can plugin in popular NPM modules such as Passport. You can moreover hands implement your own email/password, social login or Windows hallmark with a bit of JavaScript. For data storage, Sails bundles the power ORM, Waterline, which provides a simple data wangle layer that just works, no matter what database you are using. Out of the box MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis are support. However, there are increasingly than 30 data storage providers connector that the polity has created such as Microsoft SQL Server, Couchbase, Salesforce, and Firebase. You can hands switch between any data storage provider or mix and match data storage providers on a model by model basis. This talk will be lawmaking heavy as we walk through getting started with Sails and demonstrate how to implement the features of Sails through the megacosm of an API. As well, I will share the tips and tricks that I have learned using Sails at a Fortune 100 company. You will walk yonder understanding how and why you should use Sails on your next project. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/digitaldrummerj/rapid-api-development-with-node-and-sails Code: github.com//digitaldrummerj/sailstalk Past Presentations Stir Trek - Columbus, OH (May 4th, 2018) Angular Mix - Orlando, FL (October 8th-13th, 2017) KCDC (Half-Day Workshop) - Kansas City, MO (August 3rd-5th, 2017) Detroit.Code() - Detroit, MI (July 10-12, 2017) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, CA (June 24th, 2017) Nebraska.Code() - Lincoln, NE (May 10-12, 2017) Codestock - Knoxville, KY (May 5th-6th, 2017) when to top Side Waffle - The easiest way to build templates for Visual Studio The SideWaffle extension adds a tuft of useful Snippets, Project- and Item Templates to Visual Studio. The purpose is to make your daily work in Visual Studio a richer and increasingly productive experience. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/side-waffle Demo: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/SideWaffleTalksSpareResources http://www.sidewaffle.com Past Presentations Southeast Valley .Net User Group - Chandler, Az (May 2014) when to top Tips and Tricks to Maximize Your Productivity in Visual Studio Come learn well-nigh the new productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2015 and C# 6.0, some very tomfool Visual Studio Extensions, and standard shortcuts to use to unlock your productivity potential in Visual Studio. You will walk yonder from this session with all kinds of new tips and tricks to wow your fellow developers. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/developerproductivity Demo: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/DeveloperProductivityTalkSpareResources 19 Must Know VS Keyboard Shortcuts Part 1 19 Must Know VS Keyboard Shortcuts Part 2 Default VS Shortcuts Past Presentations Las Vegas .NET User Group - Las Vegas, Nv (July 30, 2015) Nebraska.Code() - Lincoln, Ne (March 19th-21st, 2015) SoCalLawmakingCamp - Fullerton, Ca (March 7th & 8th, 2015) So CalLawmakingCamp - Los Angeles, Ca (November 2014) DesertLawmakingCamp - Chandler, Az (October 2014) Southeast Valley .Net User Group - Chandler, Az (September 2014) when to top Up and Running with Angular If you have overly wanted to lawmaking an using with Angular this is your chance. Join us for a fun filled day of learning Angular in this hands-on workshop. You will go from 0 to 60 with your Angular knowledge and be worldly-wise to create our own Angular applications by the end of this workshop. We will start with a new project and protract to build up the project until we have a full using at the end. Topics Covered What is Angular and the variegated parts that make up Angular? Angular CLI Overview Angular project layout overview Creating worldwide components like headers, footers, and menus. Applying CSS to just a single component vs the whole site Creating new components (pages) Routing between components (pages) Calling an external http service Preparing your using for deployment Adding passport checks to routes (if time permits) Testing overview (if time permits and our brains aren’t once full with Angular knowledge) Labs: http://digitaldrummerj.me/angular-tutorial Pre-Requisite Knowledge Html and CSS Understanding of how events like click work in Html/JavaScript TypeScript is helpful but we will imbricate the needed knowledge if you do not have any TypeScript wits Pre-WorkUnelevatedis a quick list of the pre-work commands. These steps are covered in details in Lab 2 and Lab 3 Node LTS 8.x https://nodejs.org Visual StudioLawmakinghttps://code.visualstudio.com Angular CLI (npm install -g @angular/cli) Create a new Angular project using the Angular CLIUnshutCommand Prompt or Terminal Navigate to c:\ on Windows and ~/ on Osx Run: mkdir projects Run: cd projects Run: ng new ngws --style scss --routing Run: cd ngws Run: npm run startUnshutbrowser and navigate to http://localhost:4200 and you should see the default web page for your Angular using Past Presentations DevUp - St. Louis, MO (Octber 16-18, 2017) Detroit.Code() - Detroit, MI (July 10-12, 2017) Girl Develop It - Phoenix, AZ (May 13th, 2017) when to top Vagrant - Devops Yourself: Fast-Track Your Dev Environment Setup Does this overly happen to you? The configuration takes forever to remember, document and configure. You can’t seem to reproduce the configuration on flipside developers machine? Then vagrant my friend is for you. Vagrant will transpiration how you work. You will forever say goodbye to the “works on my machine” excuse for the minutiae environment for everyone on your team. Vagrant Only Slides: http://www.slides.com/digitaldrummerj/devopsyourself Vagrant and Chocolatey Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/devopsyourself-ndcoslo/ Examples: https://github.com/digitaldrummerj/VagrantTalkSpareResources vagrantup.com Chocolatey Gallery (chocolatey.org) Boxstarter.org Past Presentations Silicon ValleyLawmakingCamp - Silicon Valley, Ca (Ocotber 3rd-4th, 2015) Iterate Phoenix 2015 The Devops Conference - Chandler, Az (September 1st, 2015) San DiegoLawmakingCamp - San Diego, California (June 27th-28th, 2015) NDC Oslo - Oslo, Norway (June 15th-19th, 2015) SoCalLawmakingCamp - Fullerton, Ca (March 7th & 8th, 2015) Las VegasLawmakingCamp - Las Vegas, Nv (February 21, 2015) when to top Why You Need A Blog and How to Create a Successful One Blogging can profoundly help you whop your career. Don’t wait until you need a blog to create one. This talk gives you all of the tools that you need to create a blog that is updated regularly. Slides: http://slides.com/digitaldrummerj/blogging/ Past Presentations Phoenix Versioning User Group - Tempe, Az (September 9th, 2015) when to topWell-nighThis Site Sharing my knowledge with others in a manner that is easy to understand and consume.Increasingly› Services Contact RSS Atom Created with ♥ by Justin James. All content is the property of Justin James and digitaldrummerj.me. This blog, its content, and opinions are my own.