After working on projects involving ADA / WCAG compliance I can assure you, the internet sucks for people who are visually impaired. Unless you are on a government website (required by law to be compliant) or a website that is … Continue reading
AngularJS makes everything else look obsolete. I’m looking at you Backbone and Ember… It is one of those things where in hindsight the approach appears obvious because it is so elegant. However it took the web a good 15 years … Continue reading
Just launched the first version of an online product builder for Pacific Headwear at CapBuilder.net. It makes intensive use of HTML5/Canvas technology. What a fun project! This project pushed the limits of Canvas technology and replaced the previous Flash based cap … Continue reading
I bought Windows 8 and installed it today. My thought was: “Sometimes you have to say: What the ****!” – Miles from the film Risky Business 1983 Windows 8 is required to build apps for the new Windows App … Continue reading
There are at least three ways to set breakpoints against JavaScript running in the browser. 1) Use Chrome’s developer tools or Firebug to locate the line of JavaScript, then set the breakpoint with the mouse. To do it in Chrome, … Continue reading
Just posted this CSS Responsive Design testing tool. You can enter your site’s URL and it will render it at a variety of resolutions. Enjoy!
New blog theme was launched tonight! The theme name is Brunelleschi, by Kit MacAllister. He’s also from Portland. Here’s what I love about the theme – it uses Responsive Design. For a demonstration of what Responsive Design is, try re-sizing … Continue reading
Associative Arrays in JavaScript are a breed of their own. It is a side effect of the weak typing in JavaScript. To understand the issue, let’s walk through some examples: The length property is not defined as it would be … Continue reading
The Keeping it Realtime Conference in Portland showcased bleeding edge technology that will no doubt create waves, perhaps even a boom in technology akin to what Ruby on Rails did a few years ago. The Keeping it Realtime conference could … Continue reading
This post covers a few fun and useful browser based ‘CSS builder’ tools. They generate CCS3 effects on the fly and take the headache out of making them work across modern browsers. Check out http://caniuse.com/ for a complete source of … Continue reading
