http://robertdunaway.github.io
http://mashupjs.github.io
 
The Mashup is a learning tool that also serves as a bootstrap project for line-of-business applications.

MashupJS Philosophies

Reduce technical debt

All effort must be made to reduce technical debt. We’re building business applications so we must consider cost before all else. The complete cost of ownership including initial development, support, and opportunity costs must be taken into account. Technical debt can be significantly reduced by making sound decisions based on past experiences.

Below are a few items for reducing technical debt but the list could go on forever.

• Reduce the number of technologies in the ecosystem.
• Utilize strong technical leadership that gives direction.
• Develop a strong DevOps component to the development process.
• Adopt Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Resist version divergence

Mobile First

Whether or not you are designing specifically for mobile, the mobile first approach offers many benefits. When considering the real-estate available for mobile devices, you fall into the lap of success with better imagined UI design and faster running applications. When considering mobile, every aspect of performance from render time to the bits on the network is considered.

Ultimately, it’s far easier to scale the UI up from mobile to desktop than to scale an applications UI down from the desktop.

http://designshack.net/articles/css/mobilefirst/

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-first-with-bootstrap-3–net-34808

(RWD) Responsive Web Design

Responsive design is critical to delivering applications with a single code base because it takes in all form factors.

http://responsivedesign.is/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh653584.aspx

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

Offline First

Designing your application to be offline first makes the application more resilient in the face of network instability. Both desktop and web applications benefit from offline first design.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/offline_apps

https://github.com/pazguille/offline-first

http://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/

Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration is similar to build first. In a corporate environment, all your shared code is built often. The end result is you no longer have to fear breaking interfaces. Other applications that rely on your shared code will break during the nightly build. Fear of breaking interfaces leads to technical debt and eventually a complete re-write. Internet Explorer is a good case study for what happens when you fear breaking interfaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sANX9AhM8c

http://www.thoughtworks.com/continuous-integration

Continuous Delivery

DevOps is an emerging approach designed to reduce friction between the developer and operations processes. Continuous delivery to production also reduces risk because many smaller changes are less risky than fewer but larger changes. This approach leads to automation, removing the human element, resulting in further reduced risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McTZtyb9M38

https://yow.eventer.com/events/1004/talks/1062

http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/enabling-continuous-delivery-enterprises-testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLBhVEo1OG4

http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Continuous-Integration-on-a-Dollar-a-Day.html

Interesting list of Philosophies

The Mashup doesn’t subscribe to all of these but they all have something interesting to learn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_philosophies

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Tools

Tools used in the development workflow of the MahsupJS.

Update Versions
Periodically check for the latest version of dev tools and libraries.

Dev Tools

Visual Studio .NET 2013

Check for latest update - update 4

Web Essentials

http://vswebessentials.com

Latest update for VS.NET Update 4

dropbox

Productivity Power Tools

Microsoft’s link

dropbox

Resharper

https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

dropbox

Version 9.0 update 1

TortoiseSVN

Is the subversion client. I’m using subversion to access GitHub.

http://tortoisesvn.net/

Version 1.8.10.26129-x64-svn-1.8.11

dropbox

VisualSVN

Visual Studio integration with TortoiseSVN.

https://www.visualsvn.com/

Version ‘4.0.11’

dropbox

NodeJS

http://nodejs.org/

npm cache clean -f 

npm install -g n 

n stable

Updating NodeJS

• http://davidwalsh.name/upgrade-nodejs
  
• http://theholmesoffice.com/node-js-fundamentals-how-to-upgrade-the-node-js-version/

Utilities

LPE.exe (Long Path Eraser)

Removes long file/dir names node_modules creates a lot of directories and exceeds windows ability to deal with them.

I cannot find the original source or author on this. I’d like to find another utility that works as well but with a more well known source.

http://long-path-eraser-free.en.softonic.com/
 
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Long-Path-Eraser-Free.shtml

dropbox

Dropbox

Using Dropbox to bundle development tools for the team.

dropbox - Client Install

Libraries

Grunt

Task manager

http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
 
http://gruntjs.com/installing-grunt

Upgrading Grunt

Before switching to the latest version of Grunt, be sure to uninstall the old one if you installed it globally. Then reinstall grunt with the command above.

npm uninstall -g grunt


npm install -g grunt-cli

Gulp

Task manager
https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp

Install
https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-install

npm install --save gulp-install

npm_modules

Go through each npm_modules and look for updated releases.

Libraries
Angular
Angular-UI
Bootstrap
Font-Awesome
jQuery
jQWidgest or Kendo ?
lodash
modernizr 2.6.2 ( doesn’t change much )
ocLazyLoad.js ( not sure how long this will last. new angular router should replace )
ydn ( this should go away at some point. needs refactored out )

NuGet

Keep NuGet updated.

Check all NuGet packages for updates.

Databases

These might not be tools you need but if you plan to leverage SQL Server files in ASP.NET for development purposes then you’ll need these.

SQLExpress2014

Enable the use of the SQL Server file within a WebApi
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42299

SQLManagementStudio

Visual management tools for SQL Server
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35579

IndexedDb

No installation required
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API

DevOps

Team City

This isn’t integrated yet but I’m looking for a build system to adopt.
https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

Chef

https://www.chef.io/solutions/devops/