This post is a postmortem and celebration of my old web server that was ten years old before it needed to be replaced instead of trying to update it. Every stack decays over time. If your thinking web development a stack might be LAMP or MEAN. Stack in this context is the web server operating… Read More »
Working with the web has always been accessible thanks in large part to the ability to just inspect the code of whatever site you’re on to see how it works. Many modern sites are being created as single page applications and being driven mainly by client side API calls to retrieve data or update the… Read More »
In a recent post named “Merging Multiple Style Sheets to Support Themes” I detailed the journey undertaken to add theme support to the Dovetail Agent product. Now you’ll learn the basic process to creating a theme tailored to your company’s branding. We’ll start by installing or setting up any tools we’re going to use. The… Read More »
Personalization or customization of the things we use has been a standard option for users to do for a very long time and it appears almost ubiquitously in the computing world. Computer users can spend a seemingly endless amount of time customizing their desktop interface’s wallpaper, window color scheme, system sounds and the fonts or… Read More »
In the best conditions it can feel difficult to use Selenium WebDriver to run UI tests on Internet Explorer. Running on the same machine you develop on isn’t realistic as WebDriver for IE requires all of the window focus. So you move it into a virtual machine on your box and then find that your… Read More »
My major project of 2012, TheKnot.com Search BETA, launched earlier this month, the morning of December 14th, and it was a journey worth documenting. It began back in May when the company decided to start our own labs or internal incubator groups. One began right away in New York City and the other started a… Read More »
My free online dating site launch in May of 2009 after a little under 2 years of work. Now I just need to get people to come to or write about the site and the real work has begun. I post it up to all the social networks at the time telling people to come… Read More »
Wrigley’s Magic Weight Ball is my first project using the Raphaël JavaScript Library and it just went live. I used Raphaël JS version 1.5.2 which you can download from GitHub. The project requirements came through as only being an iPad version that responded to a shake event. Getting to use a new technology for a… Read More »
I registered the domain for my free online dating service, DiveIntoThePool.com, in October of 2007. I decided that along with making my first real startup that I would invest money in that it would be a good idea to do in a language I didn’t already know (ASP.NET), with a database I wasn’t familiar with… Read More »
Weddingtracker launched on June 12th around 2:30PM CST and it has been about 8 long months of development and battle to get it out the door. With over 18,000 lines of code, over 400 files and 64mb in size this has been by far my most complicated Flash project ever. You can see the 13… Read More »