Ryan Mettler

C# development is how I earned my daily bread since I completed my studies. I have worked on many different types of projects using so many interesting and fun technologies. C# programming can be really fun and rewarding if you grasp the basics. And the basics are really easy to grasp if you have the right mentor. Please check out my LinkedIn profile and let me show you what you can accomplish with C# and .Net.

Angular.js is designed and built by Google and is quickly gaining popularity. The stand out feature of Angular is its use of custom HTML tags and components to specify the intentions of your application. It provides a HTML compiler that allows users to create their own domain specific language; this can be an extremely powerful tool. The approach is different than other frameworks which seek to deal with HTML’s shortcomings by abstracting away the HTML, CSS and JavaScript by providing alternative ways to manipulate the DOM. Pros: Dependency injection, backed by Google, testing framework built in, built-in form validation, directives, extremely easy to debug, Cons: Steep learning curve, data-binding can be problematic for pages with large amounts of information, hard to implement transitions when showing / hiding views Once again, the steep learning curve can be shortened dramatically if you have a good mentor. Do yourself that favour and get a great one, even if it's not me ;)

JavaScript, and by extension, NodeJs is a versatile and exceptionally powerful language. You are able to do amazing things with it. But unlike a hammer, its greatest features are not so obvious. I have created neural nets, used it for Genetic Algorithms and wrote easy to understand, straightforward websites and backend scripts. NodeJs is single-threaded, which makes it incredibly easy to understand or reason out. However, given its asynchronous nature, it can be more powerful than many multi-threaded languages. The trick is to know how... Let me show you :)

MVC is an architecture that makes coding websites so much easier to develop and maintain. If given a choice, this would be my go-to architecture regardless of which framework or language is required.

Whether doing prototyping or writing highly scalable, production-ready code, MongoDB is my preferred database. The ease of use, speed of development and scalability is, in my opinion, unparalleled.