UX/Design Techniques • Nov 09, 2013 3 Ways a Whiteboard Can Improve Communication & Participation When you grab a marker and head for the whiteboard, the room dynamics change for the better.
Web Apps • Nov 08, 2013 Web Form Feedback with AngularJS AngularJS lets you build responsive forms in HTML that let users know what they've changed and whether the information they've entered is valid.
Web Apps • Nov 05, 2013 Opal.rb: Ruby in the Browser Run Ruby in your browser with Opal.rb. Here's an overview with sample code that wraps Pixi.js.
Personal Optimization • Nov 03, 2013 Mental Math Tricks — Find the Day of the Week a Given Date Falls On It's easy to find the day of the week that a given date falls on if you're willing to do a little memorization and arithmetic.
Extracurricular Activities • Nov 02, 2013 Hacking EVE, Part 2 – Reading Market Data This post will discuss using Nokogiri and Moneta to read dynamic market data in EVE and help us to determine accurate prices for our products.
Web Apps • Oct 31, 2013 Detecting LESS Changes with Middleman How to use Guard and Foreman to prototype with Middleman and LESS so that changes to imported LESS files are picked up automatically.
Ember.js • Oct 29, 2013 Ember.js Date Pickers – It’s Easy! We aren't using Twitter Bootstrap, so I couldn't use existing work. Instead, I found a nice library called Pikaday and integrated it it into Ember.js.
Developer Tools • Oct 26, 2013 Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop Why Linux Desktop? It helps me be more productive. Neither Windows nor Mac have all the windows-management features I like.
Web Apps • Oct 25, 2013 The Less’er of 2 Evils – Fixing Bootstrap’s Clutter with Mixins Bootstrap is built on LESS, so we can use Mixins, which allow us to embed all the properties of a class into another class.
Extracurricular Activities • Oct 23, 2013 Generating More Secure GPG Keys: Rationale The risks of using GPG in the naive way, and a few steps you can take to mitigate them.
Development Practices • Oct 22, 2013 4 Pitfalls of Developing with APIs If you are the first or sole consumer of an API or some data outside of your organization, you can very easily run into trouble.
Project & Team Management • Oct 21, 2013 Working with Remote Software Teams To make sure remote software teams get and stay on the same page, we've created an approach for effective collaboration and communication.