I often get asked what book I recommend to learn programming. This is an easy answer for me, the best programming book I have ever read is Agile Development with Rails by Sam Ruby. I am not a Ruby programmer and…
CSS Preprocessors have been around for a while now, but I didn’t start seriously looking into them until about a year ago. I didn’t think yet another language like LESS, Stylus or Sass would have anything to offer me. I…
Like many I am saddened that my favorite newsreader will go away. I use the app Reeder and the web service IFTTT to keep up to date on my feeds so now I’ll need to find something new. Reeder has…
Today we’re going to create a ball that bounces infinitely around its container. I’ll admit it: the idea for this tutorial was based on two things: first, those corny bouncing ball/logo/whatever screensaver animations that are so popular on modern televisions,…
As a user of the free version of the Puppet Dashboard, I’m always looking for little tips and tricks that can make it more useful in my day to day job. Some of the features that you find in the…
I just signed up for a free online course at MIT in programming. You can too, unless you would prefer a course from Harvard or Berkley. Through a nonprofit partnership called edX, select courses are available to anyone in the…
User interfaces patterned after analog equivalents have been critiqued endlessly. Love it or loathe it, visual skeuomorphic principles are used in a number of modern application interfaces. These products are either trying to delight us with the richness of physical…
I’d like to introduce you to a nifty little project I published on GitHub that I call Vagrantpress. Vagrantpress is a development environment for creating, customizing and developing on the WordPress CMS platform. A little background When I was putting…
I saw a flyer on a grocery store bulletin board recently. It looked like an advertisement for a used couch or guitar lessons. It had tabs at the bottom of the page to tear off and take with you. Instead…
It’s interesting that the biggest issues in technology have little to do with technology, and more to do with defining the meaning of language. It’s impossible to make sense of data unless there is some baseline agreement on what the…