Author Archives: John Teague

Pablo’s Fiesta is Back!!

The Details: When: October 25 & 26 Where: Austin TX, St. Edwards PEC (location) We took a little haitus last year, but we’re coming back this year for our Third Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space conference. What is it? Pablo’s Fiesta … Continue reading 

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Polymorphism Part 2: Refactoring to Polymorphic Behavior

I spoke at the Houston C# User Group earlier this year.  Before my talk Peter Seale did an introductory presentation on refactoring.  He had sample code to calculate discounts on an order based on the number of items in the … Continue reading 

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Polymorphism: Part 1

Note: I am teaching a course in Austin TX on Object Oriented Programming in March. I’ll also be speaking at the Austin .Net Users Group on this topic. To say that understanding polymorphism is critical to understanding how to effectively … Continue reading 

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Combining Modules in Require.js

Here’s a quick tip that I learned today the hard way, because it’s actually in the documentation. In one of my projects, I’ve got a bunch of commands that I want to attach to an event based on what menu … Continue reading 

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Node.js Must Know Concepts: Asynchronous

When writing node applications, there are a few concepts that are important to understand in order to create large-scale applications. I’m going to cover a few concepts that I think are important when building non-trivial sites with node.js.  If you … Continue reading 

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Would you like to be employee #1 at a Software Company

Update: this position is located in Austin.  However if you don’t live in the area and are interested in working with us, please contact me.  I’m always interested in working with talented developers no matter where they live! I’m expanding … Continue reading 

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Austin Code Camp Schedule

We’ve got an amazing line up of presentations this year.  A lot of great people from the community have volunteered their time to share with the rest of what they’ve learned and what they are passionate about.  With over 40 … Continue reading 

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Austin Code Camp June 9th

The 6th Austin Code Camp will be June 9th, 2012 at St Edward’s Professional Education Center.  It’s lining up to be a great conference already.  200 people have already registered and we have 30 sessions submitted too. You can find … Continue reading 

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A year in review with CQRS

For the past year my team has been building and maintaining and application using CQRS with an Event Store as our persistence model.  I started gathering requirements for this project last January and the team started development in February.  We … Continue reading 

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More tickets available for Pablo’s Fiesta

The conference sold out about a month ago. Since then we released tickets to everyone on the waitlist. We’ve released more tickets, so you don’t have to go on the waitlist right now. I want to make sure that everyone … Continue reading 

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