Please Go Listen to DotNetRocks Episode 1075 SPA Using Knockout With Steve Sanderson

Christmas break is a great time of year for me. I get some time to separate myself from client work and try to relax and catch up on things like podcasts that slip past me during my normal week. Thanks to the magic of noise canceling ear buds I used the drive to Aunt Rachel’s house to catch up on some DotNetRocks episodes. The first one I listened to (no not the fantastic episode 1024!) Steve Sanderson talk about building Single Page Web Applications (SPA). I was very excited to hear the topics Carl, Richard and Steve covered because they reflect my experience and philosophy so well.

I love single page applications because they allow developers to build rich, cross platform, cross device user experiences. Unfortunately I find there are very few developers qualified to build SPAs. Steve is the father of KnockoutJS, an MVVM JavaScript binding library. Admittedly I have not been a fan of the library, but I will put that aside for this post because it is a masterpiece of work that has laid the ground for other libraries I do like and use RivetsJS for my binding needs in case you were wondering. Today Steve’s daily responsibilities is the Azure portal many of us use to manage our Azure services. I love the blades!

Carl and Richard interviewed Steve at the New Developer Conference in London and parlayed his experience working on the Azure portal into a fantastic discussion about building single page applications. Every developer and architect should invest an hour listening to the interview. For the most part Steve’s comments, positions and experiences reflect mine. At this point I have several dozen single page applications I have worked on, advised or analyzed for myself and clients. They have ranged from something simple like this Blog to large scale, extensible applications with hundreds and hundreds of views. The largest to this point had over 800 views. I started my formal SPA commitment around 5 years ago, but the journey started way back in 2008. What I would not give now to have access to an interview with someone like Steve Sanderson on SPAs back in 2008.

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