In the previous post Unit Testing Accessibility I showed how to run accessibility check on HTML node. This approach can be used to test components of your website. You can take your accessibility testing to the next level by adding accessibility check for entire pages.

I haven’t publish any book review for a while. It does not mean I am not reading books anymore. I just didn’t feel that some of the books I read recently requires my recommendation, or I didn’t have any thoughts that I needed necessary to share right now. I have added a few books to my favorite books list though. Check them out! Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves blog post because of a few reasons...

Have you heard about accessibility? Do you know what that is? Do you know what it takes to make your website accessible? Making your website accessible, means providing ability for everyone, regardless of disability or special needs, to use it. Unfortunately if you put together all accessibility specifications and print it, the stack will be higher than CN Tower in Toronto...

Last month I had a pleasure to attend Open Source North conference in Minneapolis, MN. It was a great event with over 500 attendees and speakers from all over across the United States. I had a pleasure to meet a lot of great people, and attend a few interesting talks. I also gave a talk “Open Source and Microsoft and Beyond” where I presented a bunch of Microsoft Open Source projects (ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, Xamarin, F#), gave an insight into Azure ...

In 2014, Internets went loud after Erik Meijer’s talk One Hacker Way. I really liked this talk, because it made me think…actually even until today I didn’t figure out everything Erik meant. Unfortunately, most of people didn’t understand this talk. In 2015, he gave the same talk again, but the rhetoric was way different. It’s more straight forward, and probably more people understood it. tl;dr This talk is about approach to software engineering...

This blog is hosted on Azure. It is using WordPress, which stores its data in MySQL database hosted by ClearDb. I blogged about the issues with WordPress database size over a year ago. The issue is inserting transient entries into database that are growing its size and exceeding free 20MB ClearDB limit. As I mentioned in this blog post – you can use plugins that clear database for you, or…you can use web jobs. Azure WebJobs is very neat way to perform c...

Azure Portal Tips & Tricks is a series of short videos where I am showing various features of the Azure Portal and how you can take advantage of them to be more productive. In this video I am showing how you can customize your dashboard, but adding new tiles and organizing them.

tl;dr This post is a list of resources for learning F# and overview of my mini-project: Stock Estimator.

Last year I had a pleasure to attend and speak at awesome Thunder Plains conference in Oklahoma City. I presented Aurelia Framework: video code slides I really liked this conference. Especially, because instead of having more talks that I could count, there was only 15 sessions (selected out of over 300) divided into 3 tracks. Moreover, all speakers were passionate developers, and you could feel this during their presentations.

Last month I presented how to take advantage of Speech Recognition in the Browser at SeattleJS meetup. Google Chrome is still the only one browser that supports recognizing speech with WebSpeech API, but since last month Microsoft Edge team has adding WebSpeech API in their backlog. In this session I’m showing how to use the raw, browser API, and also how to easily add voice commands to your website with my voiceCmdr library...