cf.objective: Progressive Enhancement
For those of you following along at home, I'm current presenting on Progressive Enhancement at cf.objective 2011. This presentation is slides-only, and I've made them available as both PPTX and PDF if...
View Articlecf.objective: Replace Your Iron With a Cloud
My second talk from cf.objective 2011 is currently underway: Replace Your Iron With a Cloud. Again, a slides-only presentation which you can get either as PPTX or PDF.
View Articlecf.objective Presentation Links
If you're looking for slides and/or code from any cf.objective presentations, they're mostly published on the cf.objective site. Visit the schedule page, click on a session title, and there should be...
View ArticleEven Better Inline Progress Bars
In the handful of months since I last posted about inline progress bars, I've made some enhancements to the mechanism. In particular, the original mechanism didn't handle overages very gracefully, and...
View ArticleNeed A Job?
I have a need. A pressing need. I need new coworkers. Three of them. Boring stuff first. Mentor Graphics Corp is the EDA industry leader and makes all kinds of crazy design and simulation software...
View ArticleVisiting Recursion
Recursion is a very powerful technique, but when processing certain types of data structures you can end up with problems. And not the "compiler error" kind of problems, the bad semantic kind....
View ArticleSyncing Files on the Cloud
A couple weeks ago, I gave my "Replace Your Iron With A Cloud" talk from cf.objective to the CFMeetUp. If you didn't catch it, you can view the recording on that page. Several people both during and...
View ArticleAdobe, Mobile Flash Player, JavaScript, etc.
Before you click over this because you know me as a Flash hater, give me two seconds. That's not what this post is about. It's about a larger issue. It's about how awesome it is to be a web...
View Article.NET/Silverlight Developer Needed
The State of Oregon Public Health Department needs a rockstar .NET and Silverlight developer to customize a health and hospital information application. The position is a six-month contract, and is...
View ArticleThe Importance of Development Environments
My first job as a software developer was in 1998, while I was an undergrad at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. The project was simple: build a JavaScript application to front a website that...
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