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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

“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

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