A number of people have asked me about my recent uptick in tweets relating to information security. Some even asked me if I had left web development. I honestly didn’t think anyone had noticed but looking back I can clearly… Continue Reading
NOTE: This is about extensions you use for web development, not typical ones like LastPass, Adblock or Ghostery. As the developer tools inside browsers have matured and become feature-rich, the reliance on 3rd party extensions to fill the gaps has… Continue Reading
I’m tinkering with Node.js and using the awesome tool nvm to manage versions. One thing I struggled with briefly was upgrading to the latest version of Node using nvm. When I did that, all of my npm packages were gone… Continue Reading
Total lazy web question. If I were setting up a Linux machine for web development, specifically to learn and code with Ruby on Rails, should I go with Linux Mint or Ubuntu Desktop (or some other distro)? And why the… Continue Reading
For the last three and a half years, I’ve been privileged to work at the greatest software company in the world; Microsoft. During that time, I launched a standards-based web development site (scriptjunkie.com), worked with major product teams (Windows, Windows… Continue Reading
In an incredibly generous move, jQuery star Rebecca Murphey has released the training materials she uses for her jQuery Fundamentals class under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. This is a pretty significant contribution because developing good… Continue Reading
Nailing down the crazy YayQuery crew and keeping them in one place was a challenge but Ralph Whitbeck and I managed to do it and nail down another jQuery Podcast/video interview in the process. Check them out: Paul Irish is… Continue Reading
I was recently on a project where I needed a really flexible persistent data storage mechanism. Normally, this would be fairly easily handled via server-side data persistence code but in this case, each page of the app was basically a… Continue Reading
Today, my dad would’ve turned 67. It’s the first birthday we’ll celebrate without him. As the day goes by, the realization that he’s no longer with us really sets in. I know this day is going to be very rough… Continue Reading
I posted the other day about my disappointment in NewEgg.com for what I felt was a lack of genuine interest in my problem with the way my order was packaged. I felt that I was doing the right thing by… Continue Reading