Growing as Makers • Jul 24, 2012 Self-Taught Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation? Every software developer needs a basic understanding of computer science in four essential areas.
Web Apps • Jul 20, 2012 Simple Natural Sorting in ExtJS A simple method to sort numbers lacking leading zeroes, using a regex string replacement.
Personal Optimization • Jul 19, 2012 Systemantics and How They Apply To Everything The principles in Gall's Systemantics helped me understand malfunctioning systems and gave me a better grasp on the agile manifesto.
UX/Design Practices • Jul 18, 2012 The Information Age – Getting Away With Mimicking the Mechanical Age Using mechanical-age objects to represent technical concepts can be very useful, but it can also be limiting.
.NET / WPF • Jul 16, 2012 Making WPF Controls Modal with Adorners How to create a transparent overlay over a WPF window "behind" a given control, using a subclass of Adorner.
Development Practices • Jul 12, 2012 Embedded Developers Aren’t Special We can make embedded software better if we take testing more seriously, avoid optimization until it's necessary, write more abstract code, and stop believing we're special.
Web Apps • Jul 11, 2012 GET and POST Parameter Parsing in Rails Rails does a lot of magic to parse the data browsers submit into a meaningful, complex Ruby object. Here's how it does it.
Web Apps • Jul 06, 2012 Getting Live Updates when Changing Stores in Ext JS I recently had a live updating problem when moving an Ext JS model from one Ext.data.Store to another. Here's the solution I found.
Web Apps • Jul 03, 2012 Testing HTML5 Offline Features Against a Remote Server Using Capybara/Selenium Covers the process of testing a mobile app with offline caching against a remote Windows server application.
Personal Optimization • Jul 02, 2012 5 Tips for Success When Joining a New Development Team Success isn't just what you know – it's how well you work with others. Use your skills more effectively to build great software and relationships.
Embedded Systems • Jul 02, 2012 ThrowTheSwitch Improved with Tools & Tips for Embedded Developers ThrowTheSwitch is a central hub for embedded software development techniques, forums, and free and open-source tools.
DevOps & System Admin. • Jun 29, 2012 Restoring Deleted Files in Linux from the ext3 Journal With ext3, you can reconstruct (many) deleted files based on entries from the filesystem journal.