I got some very good feedback for my GUI design this week and it has been passed on to some other team members to code it. There has been a recurring discussion amongst the team about switching development technologies. The company technology officer appears to have a vendetta against proprietary software and Microsoft in particular. This coupled with the fact we’re using visual studio 2010 and don’t appear to have an upgrade in the near future has led the team to ponder other languages and techs. The main one in everyone’s head is java, but some others have been discussed. The MEAN stack is another topic that our senior programmer seems to be really excited about. This tech is mainly the concept of using MongodDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and NodeJS together to make full stack applications. As part of this curiosity I’ve been tasked with learning about angular, making an app using it, and presenting my findings to the team. I’ve never used angular but it’s very common so I’m excited.