GitHub Wishlist
I love github.com. I use it everyday and couldn’t code without it, but there’s a couple things that would make my job easier. Fluid Width Constraining the width of the page to 920 pixels drives me...
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Browser Feature Detector
The days of parsing user agents is over for me. Thanks to Dojo, I’m all about feature detection. Lots of good work has been done by has.js and Modernizr. At Appcelerator, I’m working on the mobile web...
View ArticleX-Frame-Options Hell
After years of web development, today is the first time I’ve been bit by the X-Frame-Options HTTP header. If you are like me, you’re wondering what the fuck X-Frame-Options is. In short, if you try to...
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A Little Light Reading: Physically Based Rendering
Look what just came in the mail today! Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, second edition by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys. 1,167 pages and 5.2lbs of computer graphics theory....
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JSConf 2012 Postmortem
This year was my first JSConf. It was an incredible experience. The talks were great. Very technical, very informative, very though provoking. The Good The first day started out with what everyone...
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typeof undefined
If you had to guess, what is the “typeof undefined” in JavaScript? It took me nearly a half day to unravel this mystery. OK, that seems pretty logical. The typeof undefined is undefined. We can verify...
View ArticleContains String JavaScript Performance
Say you have a string and you need to see if it’s in a set of valid strings. The naive approach may be to do an Array with an indexOf().
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Open Source Bridge 2012 is almost here!
Next week is Open Source Bridge 2012 in Portland, OR. I’ll be there hacking, networking, and drinking beers. The talks look decent this year: http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2012/schedule. I’m most...
View ArticleExploring the Titanium CLI Talk
Codestrong 2012 is over and my talk was awesome. As the masses flocked to the grand ballroom to hear me talk, I kindly played some Slipknot, Slayer, Helmet, and All That Remains for the crowd. They...
View ArticleFinding Node.js modules in NPM
npm is the package manager for Node.js. As of today, there are 77,588 modules registered with npm. That there lies the problem. Anybody can create an account and publish a Node module to npm. There’s...
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