Having recently pushed out a new release of our core software product (WYSIWYG R27 if anyone’s interested), the minor downtime between releases has given me an opportunity to reflect on my team’s software development process. After some deliberation (and for reasons which I won’t go into here), we decided to move towards a more agile [...]
My first experience with “designing” web pages was in the early 90s. I was still in elementary school and HTML was the “big” thing; those were simpler times filled with gifs and <marquee>. Fast forward to the late 2000s…to say that web development technologies have “changed” would be an understatement. All of a sudden I [...]
First, a bit of news. Because of my prior experiences with Django, I’ve been contacted by the wonderful guys at Packt Publishing. They’ve been generous enough to offer me a first-hand preview of a new book, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward I’ll be doing a review of the book very soon, [...]
I’ve been pretty busy with my new job so I haven’t been able to spend much time maintaining the site. Nowadays my desk job involves very little coding, so its really hard to find topics to blog about. Keep checking back though because I’ll be sure to post something more specific about my work very [...]
After some convincing by Derek, I decided to bite the bullet and invest in a Filco Majestouch Tactile Click “Otaku” NKRO (Blue Switches). Filco is a Japanese hardware manufacturer that produces “high end” mechanical switch keyboards, like the one shown above. After taxes and shipping the total cost of the keyboard came out to be [...]