Very quick - starting to look at MS ASP.Net Core, AngularJS

A New Brain


Yesterday at work we got a new employee whom I'll call Neesha. Actually, she came onboard a couple of days earlier but I was out due to surgery my wife needed. Neesha was brought on to work on a side project in my unit.

I was very pleased to have someone to talk to about more modern software development technologies. She even suggested that the side project might be suitable to use ASP.Net Core and AngularJS. How cool! Not only was she looking at new technologies (well, new compared to what our mainly Classic ASP shop implements or even considers), but she qualified the considerations with statements along the lines of "if the technologies are suitable for the application and it's requirements"! A thinker! Woo hoo!

Some Early Thoughts 

I told her I wasn't very familiar with Core or Angular - I'd only had some passing exposure to it in the past few months. I told her that I'd spend some time this weekend looking at some Pluralsight courses on the subjects.

This post isn't going to have much content other than to say that at about 1:40 AM on Saturday, 7/15/2017, I woke up and started watching the "Building a Web App with ASP.NET Core, MVC 6, EF Core, and Angular" course by Shawn Wildermuth. By about 2:30 AM I was up, had let the dogs out and fed them a carrot treat, and was at my PC working along with Shawn's course! Thanks, Neesha!

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