January, 2010

Chad Fowler’s, " Passionate Programmer "[1] is a definite must read for any developer who gives a damn about his or her career. I had heard about Passionate Programmer before but didn't it give it much thought until after hearing Joe O'Brien...

The final new widget for my home page to document is the “Latest Shared Feed Items” widget. This one displays the last 3 items that I’ve shared from Google Reader. I’m no longer displaying this widget but it was a custom designed...

This is my next to last blog post about the new widgets on my home page. The “Lastest Music” widget pulls data from my Last.fm account. Currently I’m displaying the 12 artists/albums that I’ve listened to the most on Last.fm over...

Graffiti comes with a plethora of built-in widgets and there have been plenty built by the community. Up until now they had to be displayed in a sidebar. There was no way to display a widget in your content, your header, your footer, etc. without some...

The post iPhone look-alike on your kitchen wall on Hackaday inspired me to create a slide-out Social Locator for my site. If the iPhone interface is intuitive and recognizable enough to be used for a kitchen computer then it is probably a good model for...

There is No Such Thing as a Stupid Question (Google-Fu) Have you heard this statement before? I have; a lot. I’d like to amend it though by adding, “unless you haven’t at least run it through a search engine yet.” Constantly...

Another new addition to the home page of my blog is the �Latest Videos� widget. It pulls in the 6 most recent videos that I have tagged as favorites on YouTube. It also has the option to pull in only videos that I have uploaded, but since I rarely...

via css-tricks.com The "Build Your Own Social Home!" post on css-tricks.com shows a couple of very simple scripts for displaying a Twitteer, Flickr, and Scrnshots widget using JavasScript only. Make sure to view the Demo to get the full effect...

One of the new additions to the home page of my blog is the “My Latest Photos” widget. It pulls in the 12 most recent pictures that I’ve uploaded to Flickr. It also gives a nice large preview of the image when you mouseover a thumbnail...

Everyone believes that their product has a few strengths, This is the set of things that your product does better than anything else out there.  If you didn’t you wouldn’t be building it right?  But do you really know what those strengths are...

While redesigning my blog I chose to add more of a lifestream effect to the home page of the site. I also made a conscious effort use as much AJAX with jQuery as I could and was appropriate, both to improve perceived performance and just for fun. There...

I had the opportunity this year to attend CodeMash 2010. For those of you unfamiliar with CodeMash: " CodeMash is all about jumping into new domains. Getting out of your comfort zone. Learning new things from new people. " CodeMash 2010 was...

Because it is.  If you write sloppy work items and specifications why would your developers write good code?  Bad bug reports… these are fixes with regressions that are just waiting to be found.  Poor requirements… these are just bad implementations...