No, I’m not referring to my height. I have recently joined the .NET Small Publisher’s room for the Lounge. According to the main site, “The Lounge is an exclusive network of trusted and respected publishers focused on Microsoft technologies”. Looking at the other members of the Small Publishers room I can definitely say that description is true (people like Jim Holmes, Jason Follas, Nate Kohari, Mike Eaton and many more). I’m honored to now be included in that list.

This blog post is part of a larger series named “Be a Better Developer”. You can check out the intro, “Stop Being a Code Monkey” to get started from the beginning. Each post will have a link to the previous ones and a final summary post will contain links to all entries in the series. In my last post of this series I talked about keeping your code base clean so that you reduce the amount of technical debt you incur and ensure that your code base doesn’t become the abandoned building with broken windows.

Recently I’ve been working in JavaScript and found that by default the ability to debug into JavaScript in IE using Visual Studio is turned off. It makes some sense that this is the case since the the majority of the users really don’t need to do that, but for developers this either causes us to have to update the setting manually or it hand cuffs us into writing alert statements in our client side code.