David Wesst

Creativity, Code, and Curiousity.

Posts

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux is Cool. No really, it is.

    With the Fall Creators update of Windows 10, you can go to the Windows Store and install Linux. Yeah, that’s a thing now and it’s pretty cool.

  • Sonar, the Linter I Never Knew I Wanted

    Meet Nellie the Narwhal, the official mascot for Sonar, the linting tool for the web. Nellie represents a tool that is long-overdue. It provides any web application the ability to verify they are meeting a high level of quality when it comes to their web applications, and not miss any common mistakes.

  • Service Workers and PWAs are Super Cool

    One of the core items highlighted by the Microsoft Edge team, along with many others who were just web professionals, was the importance of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). I started out thinking they were something that could be interesting one day, but left the conference convinced that this will change the way we think of…

  • Posh-GVM, the Groovy Version Manager for Powershell

    Here’s another dev thing I use: Posh-GVM, a Groovy version manager that works for Windows.

  • Jabba, the Java Version Manager for Everyone

    Here’s another dev thing I use: Jabba, a cross-platform Java version manager that works for Windows.

  • NVS, the Node Version Manger for Everyone

    Here’s another dev thing I use: NVS, or the Node Version Switcher. It works on Windows and it’s great.

  • IstanbulJS Code Coverage Reports in VSTS

    Here’s another dev thing I use: NVS, or the Node Version Switcher. It works on Windows and it’s great.

  • Mocha Test Reports in VSTS

    Here’s another dev thing I do: Display my MochaJS test report in the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) build report.

  • Conquest April 2017 Devblog

    This is the April 2017 update for my video game project I call “Conquest”.

  • Introducing My Game Project – March 2017 Devblog

    This is the first of monthly status update posts on my video game project I call Conquest.