CoffeeScript 1.5 brings with it the ability to use Literate style programming. This is an incredibly human way to treat code. Not everybody will like it, but those who do will be happy to know that it’s relatively simple to …
I am absolutely shitting myself over the the announcement from Canonical that they will be releasing Ubuntu for phones. Ubuntu for phones is a truly revolutionary convergence of mobile, desktop, and large screen devices. Mark Shuttleworth describes it perfectly: Today …
I got super excited today when I found out that Nicholas Zakas is publishing a new book. Partly because I love the topic and partly because it’s really cool how he’s going about it1. Even though I’ve been doing OOP …
Anil Dash’s post, The Web We Lost is one of those gems that makes me want to write. Old school style: link lists and comments and personality. It reminds me of the days when your community of 5 was awesome …
On the 22nd I will be celebrating my 10 year blogging anniversary. I thought it would be fun to re-publish a few of my more popular dev-related posts. A tiny bit of history I started blogging in 2002 on Blogger, …
The Template Method pattern just defines a set of methods and the order in which they should be executed. It’s pretty basic. Usage: I usually like to make the template method a static method that instantiates the class and runs …
The Strategy pattern is great when you’ve got different stuff that needs to be processed using the same interface. We use it at work to resolve “runtime” values on objects of different types. One type is attr another is data …
The other day I was working on a responsive loading screen for the Bulbstorm App, when it occurred to me that media queries are not a silver bullet. They mostly address resolution issues, but fall short when it comes to …
Okay, say an API is shitting out a bunch of products, each of which has a type. You have a bazillion classes for each of those products, but you don’t want to check each one; you just want to get …
I recently used the Composite Pattern in a situation where I had to display property panes for hundreds of widgets that were arranged in a tree view. Each widget had their own properties, some could have children. Sound like a …