Publications

8 page article (7 of content), covering the current state of JavaScript as a language. Also delves into the top tooling available as well as the top 10 projects according to stars on github that are relevant for use in applications. On top of all this, the future of JavaScript is covered and a tutorial showing some of the future async syntax that will be added.

Article covering GitHub's editor Atom. Delving into the web technologies that it's built upon, it's functionality, the package system and themes. Highlighting some of the top packages available and explaining how to author your own package and theme.

Tutorial covering Github's Electron project, which allows building of cross platform desktop based applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Node.js). Making use of Twitter Bootstrap and Ace Editor to produce a desktop based Markdown editor.

Wrote a 5 page article covering the ES6 standard for JavaScript. Delved into several new features of improvements the ES6 standard will bring JavaScript and provided further code examples. Also explained support for the new standard and how to transpile code to be compatible with JavaScript environments available at the time. The article was given the cover and a primary presence within the issue.

Second part of a Metalsmith tutorial written with Matt Gifford. This one covered more advanced topics like custom plugins.

Worked with Matt Gifford on a 4 page tutorial focused on Metalsmith. A Node.js based static site generator.

Contributed two small tutorials for a Node.js section. A simple static file web server and deploying a Node.js app to Heroku.