joehoppe.github.io

Places to find me on the internet:

profile for Joe Hoppe at Stack Overflow, Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers

Some stuff I’ve been working on

April 28, 2022

I’ve gotten a lot of technical questions on interviews over the years. To help get in the frame of mind, and as a refresher on some concepts, I’ve been maintaining this developer interview prep spreadsheet over the years

Completed watching PluralSight: Node.js 12: The Big Picture. Good refresher on the architecture of NodeJS and it’s current state.

April 12, 2022

My PluralSight activity from May 2019 to April 2022

June 21, 2019

Implemented an Azure Devops CI/CD pipeline to my personal UAT website.

April 19, 2019

Back in action blogging! Removing unnecessary using statements.

Jan 3, 2017

Wrote my first blog post! .Net developer revisits Java after a decade

May 1, 2016

Completed PluralSight course Using Git for Source Control in Visual Studio 2019

April 13, 2016

Redesigned the site using React-Create-App (React 16).

October 30, 2016

Began project to upgrade this site from Angular 1 to 2.

September 22, 2016

www.josephhoppe.com: Implemented a TypeScript outFile for a simple form of cache busting! I.e. “outFile”: “./build / build_1.0.001.js”.

www.josephhoppe.com: Upgraded to Angular 1.5.8!

August 10, 2016

www.josephhoppe.com: Switched hosting providers from AppHarbor to an Azure web app!

hoppe.apphb.com: Launched my first Node.js app on AppHarbor! It’s a couple landing pages that provide links to the new Azure app, which you are using now.

Added an About Me page!

July 12, 2016

hoppe.apphb.com: Replaced Bower with NPM!

May 11, 2016

hoppe.apphb.com: Linted the site with TSLint!

April 18, 2016

hoppe.apphb.com: Enabled HTML 5 mode routing! Not interested in supporting < IE11.

hoppe.apphb.com: Migrated much of the site’s JS to TypeScript 1.8!

November 9, 2015

hoppe.apphb.com: Disabled Angular debugInfo to improve performance!

October 29, 2015

hoppe.apphb.com: Wrote my first LESS, and compiled it with Gulp!

hoppe.apphb.com: Vetted it with JSCS and JSHint, all thanks to John Papa’s course on JavaScript Build Automation with Gulp.js!

August 27, 2015

Upgraded to Angular 1.4.4! hoppe.apphb.com: Added a Bootstrap stylesheet from Bootswatch as well.

hoppe.apphb.com: Mocked out this backend using ngMock.

April 10, 2015

Wrote my first AngularJS plugin module! Find Angular Errors on Toast on Github.

August 27, 2015

hoppe.apphb.com: Upgraded to Angular 1.4.4!

hoppe.apphb.com: Added a Bootstrap stylesheet from Bootswatch as well.

hoppe.apphb.com: Mocked out this backend using ngMock.

November 20, 2014

I’ve been looking long and hard for great resources for application architects. There appears to be a great shortage. But I did find one good one: High Scalability. I recommend checking it out. They seem to have great articles on improving performance and designing software.

November 7, 2014

Earned 1,000+ reputation on StackOverflow! My StackOverflow Profile

October 14, 2014

hoppe.apphb.com: Redid the site using Bower 1.3 as a package manager!

hoppe.apphb.com: Implemented a rough Angular CDN failback mechanism.

Loving the Visual Studio SideWaffle templates!

May 22, 2014

I told my manager that I was learning AngularJS. He asked me to demo what I had done to him and my teammates. Bored them to death! :)

May 21, 2014

hoppe.apphb.com: Launched an AngularJS 1.2 site! Also built on:

MVC 5.1 (MVC was later dropped)

Bootstrap 3

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