I’m a sucker for Fantasy and Sci-Fi. Fantasy lets me travel to imaginary worlds of extreme beauty or horror and experience the adventures and intrigues of heros and anti-heros alike. It lets me admire (and learn) the creativity of fantasy authors who build worlds from nothingness and their craftiness in knitting infinitely intricate plots. Where Fantasy has no boundaries, Sci-Fi has that more grounded quality that makes you think: this actually could happen or this is how our future could look like. Both genres are awesome!

Do you like Fantasy and Science Fiction? Then perhaps you’ll find some of these books interesting…

I love reading! You get to travel to faraway places, live adventures in wondrous worlds of magic, save the day, make amazing friends and watch them grow, learn, there’s few things that ignite slow, deep, reflective thinking as books do, borrow from the greates minds of all times, or from people that have invested years of experience and research to bring you that knowledge condensed in a few pages.Yeah… all that…and it’s fun :)

These are the programming related books that I read this year. Perhaps something that’ll be of interest to you?

Following the now tradition of the yearly reflective summary, it is time for the wrap-up blog post on what I achieved on 2015, which were my biggest fails and what I am planning to do in 2016. Here it goes!

OMG… Another year has just gone by! Can you believe it?! Here are the best articles of barbarian meets coding this year:

Top 10 Articles 2015

The top 10 articles that I wrote this year

1. How I Passed the 70-480 Certification Exam
2. Barbarian Meets Coding Wiki: The 70-483 ASP.NET MVC Certification
3. An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers
4. A Brief Update on Angular 2
5. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-Mancy for C# Developers - Chapter 1 - The Many JavaScript Quirks
6. Why I Write Unit Tests and Why You Should Too
7. Barbarian Meets Aurelia: First Contact and Building Athena
8. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers - Chapter 7 - Using LINQ in JavaScript
9. Barbaric Basics - Web Workers
10. Mastering the Arcane Art Of JavaScript-Mancy for C# Developers - Chapter 2 - The Basics of JavaScript Functions

Top 10 Most Read Articles 2015

The most read articles during 2015

1. Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Observable Arrays
2. Object Oriented JavaScript for C# Developers
3. How I Passed the 70-480 Certification Exam
4. Barbarian Meets Coding Wiki: The 70-486 ASP.NET MVC Certification
5. Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Computed Observables
6. An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers
7. Write 30% Less Test Code With AutoFixture
8. A Brief Update on Angular 2
9. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-Mancy for C# Developers - Chapter 1 - The Many JavaScript Quirks
10. Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Observables

My Top 5 Favorites 2015

The articles I enjoyed writing the most this year

1. Black Tower Summoning: JavaScript Object Composition with Mixins
2. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers
3. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers: On Summoning Servants and Critters or The Basics of Objects
4. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers: Enumerables, Iterables, Iterators and Generators
5. Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers: ES6 Arrow Functions

Hope you have had a great year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!