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Translated Strings and Foreign Language Support in JavaScript Web Apps

Translated Strings and Foreign Language Support Foreign language support in JavaScript single-page web apps is hard. JavaScript has no built-in support for translated string tables. What is so important about string tables? String tables

Building a Responsive Design is Hard – Responsizer.JS Makes Testing Easier

A Responsive Design Debugging Tool Building a responsive web design is hard and I’ve built a tool to help testing handheld sizes on the laptop easier I choose to build my latest web site

My Color Scheme for WebStorm, PHPStorm & RubyMine

KATzCool2 – A Color Scheme for WebStorm, PHPStorm and RubyMine by JetBrains I’ve hand-crafted a color scheme for the amazing web-app IDEs “WebStorm”,  “PHPStorm” and “RubyMine.” These IDEs are made by the masterminds at

They Are Not Resources – We Are People

Yesterday a colleague and I were interviewing a management candidate and one of my questions spawned an answer where she mentioned “utilizing resources to 100%.” Wow, that sounds impressive. Wait! What? I had to

“Debugger” Statement Makes Javascript Development Easier

JavaScript debugging is challenging when using script loading libraries like Require.JS, or Lab.JS. These are the sorts of libraries implementing the Asynchronous Module Dependency (AMD) pattern demand-loading source code at run-time when referenced. AMD is a

My 5 Year Old Daughter Learns to Program

Teaching and Sharing Last night I had one of my finest moments as a parent. Being a life-long programmer I always wondered how I could share my passion for building software with my child.

Google Chrome Dev Tools Pro-Tips

Web Browser as Debugging Environment Each web app developer has her own favorite way of debugging her source code. Fortunately we have a few solid choices and Google Chrome is my absolute favorite. Not

Connecting Your Heroku App with Its Amazon MySQL Database

Starting With Amazon Web Services If you’re building a complete web app you’re probably using Amazon Web Services (AWS) taking advantage of their excellent cloud-based platform. Why not use them for server-side support? Especially

Get the Names Down – New WebApp “Whew!” Moment

Just realized the “whew!” moment starting a new web-app: that I can think up a clever, self-explanatory name original enough to register and lord over these key public entries: Twitter @ account www domain URL

Date Handling in JavaScript is Hard – Make It Easy With Moment.js

Dealing with Time I have several web app projects that all deal with timestamps in some manner. For example they Parse date from a service response Render to screen in various long and short