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Hello everyone! This article links to artifacts supporting my speaker notes. I surely enjoyed sharing techniques with all of the fine folks who attended my talk at BigDesign 2013. It was a great personal honor sharing the

Hello everyone! These link to artifacts supporting my speaker notes. I surely enjoyed sharing techniques with all of the fine folks who attended my talk at OSCON 2013. It was a great personal honor sharing the

I’m proud to say I’m on the team that last year rebuilt the TripCase mobile client shipped to app stores December of 2012. It’s a big achievement for myself as a programmer, and for the company

Writing reliable JavaScript code at scale is difficult. The language lacks built-in formal structures that enable reliable engineering practices. Fortunately establishing convention and selecting mature libraries goes a long way towards building a trustworthy

Coding Social Sharing Seems Difficult My recent project allows folks to pull five ingredients together mixing up a cup of virtual coffee as a way to share good vibes with friends or a supportive

Serving Up a Single Page Web App Demo Must Be Easy By Now, Right? Let’s review how I deployed “for release” the single-page live demo site accompanying my recent “Foreign Langauge Support in JavaScript” article

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

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

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

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