January 2012
22 posts
3 tags
Jan 27th
9 notes
4 tags
Jan 27th
5 notes
3 tags
Jan 25th
4 notes
2 tags
“If you’re willing to keep doing work you dislike just to pay your bills,...”
– unknown
Jan 24th
3 notes
5 tags
Complex vs Complicated Software →
Jan 23rd
45 notes
5 tags
JavaScript Learning Project - Part 2
Have added a lot of libraries to the project, which now includes the following: The Foundation CSS Framework jQuery Backbone.js underscore.js I also eschewed any of the templating engines and instead decided to set up the server to serve a basic HTML file, along with all the client side CSS and JavaScript, and have that interact with the server to send and retrieve data. I really like the...
Jan 22nd
13 notes
Jan 22nd
10 notes
Javascript Learning Project - Part 1
Didn’t take too long today, but I was able to accomplish the following: Get the coffeescript package installed and working find a coffee-mode for emacs Get express installed and working Set up a basic ‘hello world’ server Check it all into a github repository. Suprisingly, getting set up to create a github repo was the longest step of any of them. But I’ve been...
Jan 22nd
Jan 21st
22,758 notes
Jan 20th
6 tags
JavaScript Learning Project
I’ve wanted to learn more about all of the great technologies out there, so I’ve come up with a (hopefully short) project that will help me learn about a lot of the new technologies that are out there: Set up a simple REST interface with Node.js and the Express.js plugin Set up a simple front-end in HTML,CSS, and Backbone.js that can interact with it. Store the data in a MongoDB...
Jan 20th
18 notes
Jan 20th
41 notes
2 tags
“Use things that you know will be great in two years”
– Joel Spolsky
Jan 19th
8 notes
3 tags
Fighting SOPA / PIPA Today
I know everyone is happy to have all of their favorite websites back today, but the war against internet censorship is far from over. The big issue here is not convincing politicians, but the media conglomerates that spend millions sponsoring this kinds of bills. The same companies that have tried so hard to fight against other ‘industry-killing’ technologies such as Cassette Tapes,...
Jan 19th
28 notes
6 tags
“How can you figure out if you are sane? … Everyone knows that the insane...”
– Hofstadter, Godel Escher Bach (Can’t wait to get this book in the mail tomorrow)
Jan 19th
29 notes
4 tags
Jan 17th
27 notes
Eddy Chan: How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be... →
eddy-chan: Reading the umpteeth ‘Son, you need to learn to code if you’re going to be a web startup founder’ article I knew it was the first step I had to take. After all, it makes perfect sense right? You have a vague product idea which you want to turn into a prototype or even possibly a V1; you’re either…
Jan 13th
90 notes
2 tags
Jan 13th
24 notes
1 tag
“Minimalism is not about less, it is about exactly.”
Jan 11th
12 notes
3 tags
Jan 10th
12 notes
Jan 5th
8 notes
4 tags
The Year in JavaScript →
Article I wrote for the company blog. Talking about some of the many new JavaScript technologies that have gained popularity this year, such as Node.js, Backbone.js and Coffeescript
Jan 4th
10 notes