What a wild month and a half I’ve had! Cam is 4 and Mia is almost 2. I am learning Rails and Node.js in an effort to become a full-stack web developer. More to come…
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Still going strong
Coffeescript, Jasmine and Katas
Hey-O!
CoffeeScript is nice. It provides syntactic sugar and adds tremendous functionality to the web developers tool-chest. Those who appreciate terse, yet readable and well formatted code; CoffeeScript will seem like a manna from heaven. I find that I am already looking at my JavaScript and refactoring it in…
Thick Client Architecture
The funny thing about not knowing something is… not knowing. Until a few weeks ago I had no idea that a massive transformation was taking place under my own feet. I knew that servers served and browsers display. I didn’t realize that so many developers using ASP.NET MVC and…
Lab – Twitter Bootstrap V2
The awesome duo, @mdo && @fat, of Twitter bootstrap fame have released Twitter bootstrap 2.0. In short, Twitter bootstrap is a great way to get HTML5-CSS3-JavaScript up and running with a lot of the hard work already done.
The project comes with a heap of customization…
My MOO cards!
Just Ordered….
Vacation Hour Tracker App
Most of us deal with some aspect of our job/career that isn’t directly under our control. For those who do not know, I am a firefighter for a medium to large metropolitan fire department that is located 1.5 hours south of Phoenix, Az. There are many of aspects in…
LocalStorage with Knockout.js – jQuery Mobile – jStorage
I recently started evaluating various JS libraries/frameworks and other JavaScript goodies. I just wanted to post a quick tutorial when working with Phonegap (Cordova) jQuery Mobile and Knockout.js.
This project uses;
Set a binding to a click event on the view model you want to…
JavaScript and teh new year…
Amazing.
It is really quite amazing what you can get accomplished with Javascript once you wrap mind around its subtleties. I am there. I’m launching something quite new in the next week or so…. a sort of repository.
I will have my very own LABS page in the coming…
PhoneGap/Callback 1.3.0 – USE IT!
PhoneGap 1.2.0 broke apps when used on devices with Ice Cream Sandwich / Android 4.0.* The tag was being ignored I.e.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
This is not parsed by the browser in PG 1.2.0, or is parsed and parsed incorrectly which made the viewport appear…
Flex, Flash, Spoon and the road ahead….
I just had to brain vomit this….
1. Flex relies on the Flash Player and/or Air, correct? Without constant tight integration between Spoon and the Flash Player… I think Flex is heading down a troubled road with a stormy horizon around 1, 2 or 3 years from now.
You can…



