Whenever you release a piece of code, a library, or any other software package, you should include a license so that other people may legally use your software. You may not think it’s a big deal, but if you don’t include a license, a lot of people won’t be able to (or feel comfortable) using […]
Thoughts & Advice
Before asking for help, make sure you understand your tools
I’m writing this blog post in response to Why Rockstar Developers don’t Ask for Help and So you want to be a Developer Rockstar?. Despite the use of the ridiculous term “Rockstar Developer” and quite a lot of humble bragging, I think the author is on to something, but just barely missed the mark. I […]
Rant: Constants can’t be mutable
I’ve been working with Ruby lately, and a few people have told me that Ruby has constants, but they are mutable. Recently, I’ve been reading a new book on Ruby, and read the following passage: A lot of other places mirror this (e.g. rubylearning.com). You cannot have constants if they are mutable. Mutable constants are just […]
2013 in review
2013 was a good year for me. I got a job at REDspace, a web development company in my area that does a lot of cool an interesting work (Also, they build games and mobile apps). I’ve been working on a lot of cool projects there. My current project has taught me a great deal […]
What’s PhoneGap?
Have you heard of PhoneGap? If not, you should definitely check it out. It’s basically a cross-platform app wrapper around HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with a few APIs so you can access the device features. It lets you create native mobile apps without having to work in Java or Objective-C for example. Combine that with […]
PHP 5.4.0 Is Now Available
It’s been an exciting first quarter this year in technology. Apache HTTPD 2.4 was just released (Apache is a very popular web server and this was a significant upgrade), and now PHP 5.4.0 just went live. PHP 5.4.0 is a big upgrade that I am very excited to start using. It includes a feature called […]
WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was just released and I’m already running it on one of my sites. It’s fantastic, they fixed and added quite a few nice things We have the ability to query multiple taxonomies now Custom post types can have archive/index pages (Using the template post-type-archive-{$post_type}.php) The link dialog box lets you search […]
WordPress 3.0 Thoughts
I’ve been using WordPress 3.0 at work for a month now, and what do I think of it? It’s fantastic! WordPress 3.0 added many new features, including custom menus which are extremely helpful for using WordPress as a CMS. WordPress 3 implemented over 200 fixes and features, so I recommend checking out the official site […]
Python and Django
I’ve been busy learning Python and Django lately. Python is a great language, and Django is an excellent framework. I still enjoy PHP, especially for scripting, but I also see that it has certain pitfalls that Python doesn’t (And vice versa). Django is a framework for web development, and a good one at that. It […]
A single standard rendering engine
Recently I read an interesting article about the features not present in CSS. These features could probably be added easily enough, but the main problem is when browsers would update their engines to support these features. I understand that companies and organizations that develop web browsers (Mac, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, etc) want to add their […]