Tech-Stack Checklist for a Modern Single-Page Web Application

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

Ken at Big Ruby 2013

Big Ruby Conference 2013 I had the good fortune of attending Big Ruby Conference 2013 at the end of February. Held in Grapevine, TX it brought together fine minds thinking about leveraging Ruby on Rails

Hey App Maker – Your Settings Menu Is All Full of Crazy

It’s the Ubiquitous Gear Icon Did you download an app and tap curiously on the little gear-looking icon and see a page all full of crazy? I sure have. Lots of times. Too many

Save Hundreds of $$$ Registering for O’Reily OSCON 2013

Bottom Line Register using my speaker coupon code TABOR and receive a 20% discount. Speaking At OSCON I’m proud to say I have the privilege of speaking at OSCON 2013. That’s totally awesome. It looks to be

BackBone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine

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

Social Sharing with Backbone, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+

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

Three Types of Social Sharers Your App Should Enable

Social Media Support Determining the correct amount and quality of social sharing for the application you’re building isn’t easy. What follows are my notes on three types of social sharers that might help you

The Standing Desk Project

Standing desks are something I first heard about from a teammate about eighteen months ago. He mentioned it as a health consideration and I dismissed it as a hipster trendy meme that I couldn’t care less

Where are the Mobile App “Nails Places” and “Dry Cleaners?”

Are there mobile-app equivalents of “nails places?” I’ll gladly accept the digital equivalent of “dry cleaners” and I suppose in a pinch “pizza franchises” as well. If where you live is anything like my

Serving a Web Page Demo from Amazon S3 + BlueHost

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