2024 Yearly Recap

Dany ParedesDany Paredes
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The year 2024 is almost over, and reflecting on it, it was amazing with many tech talks, community contributions, learning from the community, and sharing great times with friends and family.

Special Thanks

I want to say a big thank you to Jรถrgen de Groot , Bezael Pรฉrez , Leifer Mendez, Alyssa Nicoll, @Mandy Mowers, Rainer Hahnekamp @DecodedFrontend, @AnfibiaCreativa, and @santosh for their helpful advice, great learning opportunities, and for inspiring me to get better every day!

Thank you also to @innoIT and the @GDG groups for all your hard work in making every event a success. I really appreciate your support!

Year in Numbers:

Looking back, Iโ€™m proud to have wrapped up 2024 successfully, thanks to all of you. Here are some of the highlights of this incredible year:

January

Start January with a ๐ŸŽค Tech Talk at @Harbur.space, Barcelona about Angular Signals

โœ๏ธ Articles:

  1. Gemini ChatSession with Kendo Conversational UI and Angular

  2. Web Accessibility: Working with Images and Content

  3. How to Begin with Website Accessibility: A Simple Guide

February

๐ŸŽ‰ Celebrated becoming a ProgressChampion and danywalls.com passed 500,000 blog view.

๐Ÿค– Tech Talk AI + Frontend with Leifer Mendez in Madrid, demonstrating chatbots built with Gemini, Angular, and Kendo UI.

โœ๏ธ Articles

March

I had the privilege of conducting two workshops with the DonWeb Cloud & IaaS, all about building Angular libraries and leveraging Kendo's power Progress Telerik and Kendo UI.โœ๏ธ Articles

โœ๏ธ Articles

April

Thanks to. Jรถrgen de Groot to come to BCN and share great time with my family!

โœ๏ธ Articles

May

Thanks to Kendo and Google Devs for the trophy, gemini swag, and Kendo UI stickers.

โœ๏ธ Articles

June

I had the pleasure of sharing my experience with the Kendo UI IA Component at the tech talk "Frontend and IA" with Leifer Mendez. Thanks to Innoit for hosting the event and Kendo for the stickers.

โœ๐Ÿผ Articles

July

Articles about LLM and Testing

โœ๏ธ Articles

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Learn how to build your local chatbot using Geminy Nano with Chrome Canary and Kendo UI.
https://www.danywalls.com/building-a-local-ai-chatbot-with-gemini-nano-chrome-canary-angular-and-kendo-ai-prompt

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Learn about common mistakes writing testing in Angular with a real example, moving from NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA to Stub and NgMocks. https://www.danywalls.com/testing-components-in-angular-noerrorsschema-stub-components-and-ngmocks

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ How to use Gemma LLM locally with Ollama, Kendo UI, and Angular.
https://www.telerik.com/blogs/interact-local-llms-ollama--gemma-kendo-ui-angular

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ How to test services in Angular with HTTP Request.
https://www.telerik.com/blogs/testing-services-angular

August

In August, I refreshed my skills with NgRx. I wrote two blog posts explaining when to use different RxJS operators (concatMap, mergeMap, switchMap, and exhaustMap) while building a CRUD application with NgRx.

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ https://danywalls.com/when-to-use-concatmap-mergemap-switchmap-and-exhaustmap-operators-in-building-a-crud-with-ngrx

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ https://danywalls.com/handling-router-url-parameters-using-ngrx-router-store

September

The Signal month :) write about model and read the book about sginals.

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ How to Simplify Angular Component Communication with model() and Signals

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Reading Angular Signals Masterclass eBook by Kevin

October + Tech Talks and Swags

Kendo Swags + Talks

Talks with Bezael Pรฉrez about Javascript

Articles:

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Build Dashboard with Charts Using Kendo UI for Angular ListView

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Simplify Your Angular Code with NgRx Entities: Why I Love NgRx Entities

November

Thanks to Google Dev for swag!

DevFest Madrid, BCN and Jaen

With four events in a single month a take bit time to write a article:

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ Build Multi-Conversation Chat with Kendo UI and Signals

December

Workshop with donweb about Kendo UI and AI. (Spanish)

!Done!!

The year 2024 was amazing, with challenges and professional growth. I hope to continue working and learning from the community and next year continue growing and learning!

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Dany Paredes
Dany Paredes

I'm passionate about front-end development, specializing in building UI libraries and working with technologies like Angular, NgRx, Accessibility, and micro-frontends. In my free time, I enjoy writing content for the Google Dev Library, This Is Angular Community, Kendo UI, and sharing insights here.