Building Web Apps using TypeScript with Steve Ognibene
Have you been building web apps with TypeScript? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Ognibene about his work with TypeScript projects. The discussion starts with dispelling myths about TypeScript - no, it doesn't exist just to make C# developers more comfortable in web development! Steve compares how development is different in the strongly typed world of C# where the compiler does a bunch of testing for you versus the dynamically typed space of JavaScript where you're responsible for managing type related errors - something that TypeScript can help with! In the end its all JavaScript, and that is evolving also - Steve talks about how ECMA 6 looks a lot more like C#... is there a middle point here we're all racing toward?
Guests:
Steve Ognibene
Steve Ognibene is an application developer in New York City specializing in SQL Server, C#, VB.NET and TypeScript. Steve started as a system admin in 1998 working with Windows NT 4.0, and got involved with scripting and Windows automation in the SMS 2.0 days. He first did professional web development in 2000 on IIS 4 and classic ASP, pushing the limits of JavaScript on IE 5.5. Steve worked as a traveling consultant from 2004 to 2008 with disciplines and technologies across the Microsoft platform including .NET Development, SQL Server, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SMS/SCCM. Since 2008, Steve has been a team lead for Application Development at a Fortune 100 company in New York City working mostly with ASP.NET and SQL Server. Steve loves teaching and talking about all of the technology platforms he uses. He is an active contributor to open source projects and is the author of the “T-SQL Flex” add-in for SQL Server Management Studio, and the “From Zero to Pull Request” guide to Git and GitHub on Windows. Steve is married and has one child.
Links:
- Google Maps Ocean https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/oceans?gl=us
- Source Maps 101 http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/source-maps-101--net-29173
- TypeScript http://www.typescriptlang.org/
- DefinitelyTyped http://definitelytyped.org/
- ecmascript http://www.ecmascript.org/
- ECMAScript 6 https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features
- BabelJS https://babeljs.io/
- Atom Editor https://atom.io/
- Grunt-TS https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-ts
- Steve on Pluralsight http://www.pluralsight.com/author/steve-ognibene