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Date Handling in JavaScript is Hard – Make It Easy With Moment.js

Build web applications with the open-source Moment.js library for better handling, comparing, and rendering of dates.

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They Are not Resources – We Are People

Who flipped the bit in leader’s brains telling them it’s perfectly fantastic and normal to call developers resources?

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Google Chrome Dev Tools Pro-Tips

Not only is Google Chrome an exceptional web browser, it’s a built-in debugger. Web app developers will find best practices for developing Javascript source code.

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Building a Responsive Design is Hard – Responsizer.JS Makes Testing Easier

How do we test CSS selector rules we craft? Send a fist full of files up to the server and load on all the devices? Instead keep your development local and simply drop in the Responsizer.JS library. It...

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Translated Strings and Foreign Language Support in JavaScript Web Apps

Foreign language support seems to be one of those gritty boring subjects that no one cares to write about and plenty of us are stuck implementing. This technical article, GitHub repo, and live demo...

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Serving a Web Page Demo from Amazon S3 + BlueHost

Amazon S3 buckets are fast, cheap and meant to be banged on by tons of people all day long. The awesome thing is storing JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PNGs from a single page web app demo can be hosted out of...

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Where are the Mobile App "Nails Places" and "Dry Cleaners?"

Are the overriding majority of mobile app development teams earning modestly well as my local "nails places" and "dry cleaners?"

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My Standing Desk Hack

Standing desks are something I first heard about from a teammate about eighteen months ago. He mentioned it as a health consideration and I dismissed it as a hipster trendy meme that I couldn’t care...

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Three Types of Social Sharers Your App Should Enable

Determining the correct amount and quality of social sharing for the application you’re building isn’t easy. What follows are my notes on three types of social sharers that might help you decide what...

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Social Sharing with Backbone, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+

Using end-points from the big social sites is easy and I knew immediately that was the solution to my problem of sending virtual coffee. It can be your go-to solution as well. Whatever you’re sending.

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BackBone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine

Writing reliable JavaScript code at scale is difficult. The language lacks built-in formal structures that enable good engineering practices. Writing unit tests in Jasmine gains confidence in our...

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Hey App Maker – Your Settings Menu Is All Full of Crazy

Did you download an app and tap curiously on the little gear-looking icon and see a page all full of crazy? I sure have. Lots of times. Too many times. What’s up with app developers and their settings...

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Tech-Stack Checklist for a Modern Single-Page Web Application

Behind the scenes we built this modern single-page web application atop a carefully curated technology stack. Achieving that task is simple, but not easy. We choose open-source web tech based on...

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Better Speaking: 7 Top Resources for Programmers

I’m proud to say I have the privilege of speaking at OSCON 2013 on July 24th. While working on my presentation I’m doing R&D on being a better speaker. Why? As a coder I’m naturally shy and...

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Foreign Language and String Tables in JavaScript WebApps (OSCON 2013 Speaker...

Collection of speaker slides, demo app, GitHub source code repo supporting my session held at OSCON 2013.

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Cooking and Coding – Mixing My Passions

I’m reflecting on two of the things that truly define my character: cooking and coding. One I do for pay and the other I do purely for the love of sharing. Both passions have surprisingly overlaps....

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Hammering Responsive Web Design Into Shape

This BigDesign 2013 conference session slide set helps you develop, and more importantly, debug responsive web design. Why? Because it’s not easy. These are nuts and bolts hands-on concepts to help you...

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A Hackathon Winning Tech Stack

I’m sharing the project’s tech stack because we connected-the-dots between some amazing open-source libraries that accelerated us in a big way. You ought to have a look at these when you can because in...

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Why I Crowdsourced My 2013 Performance Review

Since I’m completely mental for analytics I decided I’d ask absolutely everyone for feedback on my 2013 work performance. I’d treat it like a stylized customer survey making it online and anonymous...

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NodeJS Deploying Files to AWS S3

Reduce the friction of deploying website assets by creating a tool automating copying files up to Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3 buckets using NodeJs. This step-by-step article leads a programmer through...

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