web app dev Archive

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