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 »
Creating your own personal brand gives you control over how your discovered on the Internet. There are risks to being connected online, but you’re already creating a personal brand right now by using any social network or contributing to open source software. Take ownership of your personal brand today.
Internet Explorer 9 was released 4 years ago in 2011 which sounds like a short time, but it really is an eternity in the world of web development. IE has had 3 releases since then and the 4th is on the horizon, but the upgrade cycle of many companies doesn’t reflect that fast pace. So… Read More »
Unit testing is something every developer agrees should be done, but often doesn’t do. Setting it up isn’t hard after reading and evaluating what feels like a 7 course meal of modules that need to come together hand in hand to allow you to write some tests. It is fairly easy after you’ve learned more… Read More »
A tutorial on creating extensions and plugins for the Markdown parser Remarkable JS.
Cross-platform mobile web development is heating up and the the performance level is continuing to increase as new an more powerful devices are released. One of the allures to this style of mobile development is the single code base you can use across multiple platforms. With wrappers like Cordova and modern web frameworks you can get… Read More »
Just don’t. If you are trying to focus on hiding your trade secret sauce that you’ve written into your new single-page JavaScript application you’re just wasting your time. If you’ve coded the entire framework and all your libraries by hand then no one will be able to understand your code enough to steal pieces, they… Read More »
I’ve been reading technical texts for years; ever since I saw dinosaurs come to life in Jurassic Park. I went to the library and started reading all the books on genetics a middle school library might have. I didn’t then and still don’t really know what I was reading, but I just kept reading for… Read More »
This summer I had been having fun working on a Windows 8 RT C# application. I decided to take the momentum of learning a new language and platform and apply that to getting certified. To earn a Microsoft Certified Solutions Develop for Windows Store Apps Using C# you need to pass three tests of increasing specialization,… Read More »
Heading toward the app submission finish line with our new Windows 8 Store App I was wrapping up the remaining functional bugs and we had a moment to breath. Of course with that extra time I started to poke around at performance and asked about our expected usage. They didn’t have an idea so we… Read More »