Fun Friday: Links, Tweets And More: 5/16/2014

Friday, 16 May 2014
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  • Jeff Ammons

Fun Experts
Fun Experts

OK, folks, let's leave the fun to the experts. I don't want anyone getting hurt.
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Woo-Hoo! It's Friday people!

I'm trying something new. Fun Friday sharing of the links and things.

Here's a random sampling of things I thought were cool this week. Mostly tech related or possibly shared by tech folk. Occassionally just random or funny.

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Intro To Node With Microsoft Tools Presentation

Thursday, 08 May 2014
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  • Jeff Ammons

Intro To Node.js With Microsoft Tools
Intro To Node.js With Microsoft Tools

Intro To Node.js With Microsoft Tools

Microsoft has really ramped up their support for Node.js over the past couple of years.

With the introduction of Node.js Tools For Visual Studio they've turned their super fancy IDE into a real contender in the Node development space.

Sure it has some rough edges (it is still in Beta after all), but it already makes the task of debugging node apps much nicer.

I presented a talk at the Gwinnett, Georgia, Microsoft User Group (GGMUG) meeting for May, 2014 about using Microsoft tools for Node development.

Here's a PDF of my slides.