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I have collected hundreds of quotes over the years for inspiration. I wanted to share a few of these and my comments on how these quotes help me shape my business and design my lifestyle. We are not provided with wisdom; we must discover it ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one [ ]
If you ve ever wondered how people end up on stage speaking at conferences, this article is for you. I m going to describe the different steps and share some tips tricks to increase your odds of success. These are lessons I learned over the past 10 years of successfully giving 50+ talks on all continents. [ ]
A few years ago, I came up with the idea of an art display to illustrate my tech history through code. The idea was to take meaningful code snippets from my career and have them paint a canvas on which the logo of my solo business, Interstate 21, would emerge. Basically, I wanted a The Matrix -like [ ]
The number 1 question I get from people I meet is: How did you become a Google Developer Expert? I m always happy to answer that question because I help people learn, develop, grow, and take the next step in their careers every day. I ve been a GDE since 2017, so my honorary Experts plaque is [ ]
Just a quick heads up: All of my Angular blogging now happens at Angular Training. Angular Training is, well, my Angular training and consulting business 🙂
TypeScript plays a big part in making Angular a great framework. Part of the reason why it s great is because it brings to the table a lot of features from ES2015 or even ES2017 that aren t available yet for all browsers. Yet TypeScript allows us to use those features and transpiles them down to good [ ]
When I first started working with Angular (back when it was known as Angular 2 beta), I had a hard time getting my head around the lengthy set-up process. After all, all Angular JS required was a single Javascript file, and now I had to download hundreds of megabytes of dependencies, install a compiler, use [ ]
Angular 4 was released last week, following the new schedule set by the Angular team that decided to release one new major version every 6 months. Wait, where is Angular 3? There won t be any Angular 3. That s because the Angular Router package was already at version 3.x, while all other Angular packages were at [ ]
One of the questions I hear the most often when I teach Angular is: How do I implement authentication? There are a lot of options out there so I ll stick with the tools Angular provides out of the box, which allow to implement authentication without any external dependency. First, I m assuming that you re familiar with [ ]
With Angular 4 around the corner, now is a great time to migrate to Angular 2. There is no rush though as Angular 4 is just the next iteration of what is now called Angular, the new name for v2, 4, 5,6 and so forth. As a result, per the latest branding guidelines, this article [ ]