Shell scripts, JavaScript pedantry, CSS fixations, Java debugging, and the rest of the polyglotism.
Vermont Code Camp 5 (#vtcc5) was a blast this year. As much or more fun than last year. I’m impressed how little ol’ Vermont can attract such a big crowd for an all-day-Saturday tech event (and on such a nice day, too) — including speakers from up and down the east coast. I had a […]
While the thoughts are still fresh in my mind, I wanted to quickly jot down a few things about what it was like to be a TA for the Burlington chapter of Girl Develop It (GDI). Most of what I’m feeling at the end of the day can (in a nutshell) be boiled down to: […]
My first hands-on exposure to AngularJS was when I wrote my Patented Project Management Dev Dice. It is admittedly a trivial app–hardly worth the name–but I used it to get familiar with the absolute basics of the framework. 1 But now that I’ve been using Angular for a couple weeks to build a non-trivial application, […]
Today’s moment of Angular zen: Try to think of it this way: Anything that you set on the scope object in the directive’s return object, those will be the properties pre-populated on the scope argument passed to the scope parameter in the function assigned to link. And those can be inferred from the attributes passed […]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little JavaScript library called a2z for creating ranges of characters and published it to npm. I was inspired by a rather painful bit of code I had come across where each letter in the alphabet had been specified one at a time. While I could see that […]
Just like it says on the tin, Functional JavaScript (Michael Fogus 1; O’Reilly, 2013) is just that: a book about writing JavaScript in a functional style with Underscore.js as the foundational library to give you some of the higher-order functions you need to get started. 2 First, a disclosure: I have a very personal relationship […]
Among the myriad of powerful features in Git, cherry-pick is probably the cause of and solution to most of my source control problems. I use it often, and probably way more than I should; I say the former because it seems like the obvious way to selectively and surgically move around “just those” changes, and […]
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Last night was the third BurlingtonJS meet-up, and it seems to have been another success. Attendance was good and the crowd was once again pretty engaged. Always fun, always a room full of smart people, always good discussion. This month, I had the privilege of presenting, and took a few pages from chapters Michael Fogus’s […]
Last night was the second BurlingtonJS meet-up and once again it felt like a huge success. Many thanks again to Patrick and Pete for organizing it; there was a great turn out and a lot of great discussion. The theme of the night was Node and the presenters did a fantastic job. First up, Dave […]