A couple of weeks I did my first certification exam ever and I passed! Wihoo! I thought that you who are planning on taking this or any other certification exam could maybe find my experience of value and thus here we are. :)

I approached the whole exam thing mainly as an excuse to learn and refresh my knowledge in web development, starting from the very basics to the more advanced APIs that I hadn’t had the chance to look into, trying to fill in all the gaps that I felt I have had in my web dev knowledge in the past. So this is not going to be an article on how to pass the exam with the least amount of effort possible, no tricks or shortcuts, it is just going to be an article about how I went about preparing for the exam, just plain old studying, practicing, coding, learning and writing a freaking exam XD.

With Barbaric Basics I brush up on basic techniques, practices and APIs. Come along and get them refreshed you too. Who knows? You may even learn something new!

Today we live in a world of many devices, many resolutions, many form factors and as such it is more challenging than ever to build websites that provide an awesome experience in all of these different and ever-changing conditions.

Fortunately, HTML5 brings with it a couple of new techniques that let us developers create flexible layouts with less hassle than ever before: flexbox and grid. I have created a tutorial/walkthrough that I hope will get help you start getting acquainted with Flexbox, the most mature of these two new layout systems. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Flexbox is a stable standard and is supported by all modern browsers (>IE10), so there’s no reason not to start using it today.

And here are some additional references if you want to learn some more!

• Flexbox Playground
• Solved By Flexbox
• Flexbox at MDN
• Complete Guide to Flexbox
• W3C Flexbox Specification

With Barbaric Basics I brush up on basic techniques, practices and APIs. Come along and get them refreshed you too. Who knows? You may even learn something new!

So in something like a couple of weeks I am going to be taking my first ever Microsoft certification exam! I am going to start with the 70-480: Programming HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 and get my way through all the web development stack. A certification? - you may ask yourself - Do you even need that? Is it worth anything?

Did you miss day 1? Then take a look at this article

And it was a wrap-up for Swetugg the Swedish conference for .NET developers by .NET developers.

tl;dr; Great second and last day at the conference with more interesting talks on BDD, specification by examples, Conway’s Law, Polyglot programming and persistence, event sourcing, graph databases, document databases, Entrepreneurship, Lambdas, UX magic, EPiServer and Game Development backed on Azure.