• March 28, 2013

    Drive Mocha-PhantomJS with CoffeeScript

    PhantomJS opened up to me in a major way once I discovered I was able to drive it with Mocha. I still, however, find creating HTML pages for tests very cumbersome, and far from DRY. And I want to write my tests in CoffeeScript, dammit!

  • June 9, 2012

    Aviary and the Recovering Front-End Web Developer

    About a year ago I joined up with Aviary, the company that proved creative software doesn't need to be tied to the desktop with its Flash-based image/audio/effect editors. At this time, the war on Flash was in full swing and the job post I applied to was under the auspice* that I would be converting those awesome Flash apps into HTML5. Dream job material am I right?

  • June 25, 2011

    Nicole Sullivan Talks OOCSS and Process

    Nicole Sullivan (aka @stubbornella) brought Object-oriented CSS (OOCSS) to NYC last Thursday in an updated presentation on how our best practices in CSS are killing us. She was refreshingly candid and it was great to have insight into her work process with big clients.

  • April 16, 2011

    PPK in the BK on Mobile JavaScript

    I recently had the pleasure of seeing a true Web pioneer give a talk on mobile JavaScript. A Touching Look Into The Future Known As Today brings Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk, creator of quirksmode.org) to Brooklyn to give an updated talk about his experience in the trenches testing JavaScript touch event support on various mobile devices. I'll attempt to distill it down to some key points.

  • March 26, 2011

    RequireJS: What Not To Do

    As with most things, using RequireJS wrong can be worse than not using it at all.

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