Coincidences
The day steve jobs died, my mom, who is in the hospital fighting ovarian cancer, came off of a respirator. She couldn’t talk, so she used my iPad to type out what she needed.
Lightweight UI Plugins for jQuery
One of my newest and persistent obsessions is constantly looking for ways to make dcunited.com load faster. It’s a challenge because we want to have a content-rich site, with lots of photos, videos, and interactive elements. There are a lot of techniques you can try, from optimizing images, using subdomains to trick browsers into downloading
Startups are getting smaller
Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don’t think its just true for startups, I know at work we’re doing
Frustration with Drupal core growing
When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen. You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud. That can’t be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7. My thoughts after the quote.
Poison Ivy relief
I don’t want to anger the woods gods by posting this, but I’ll risk it. So far, this is shaping up to be the first summer in 5ish years (or more, I’ve lost count) where I haven’t been exposed to poison ivy. And that is despite finding some very poision ivy looking plant in one
Working with git branches
I can’t seem to remember the specicfic magic git switches when pushing and pulling branches between different git repositories, so I am writing it down here. 1. Create your local branch for development git checkout -b my-branch 2. Push local branch to remote server & track it. git push -u origin my-branch 3. Checkout and
What’s in your Project Management toolbox?
Matthew at DogStar describes his PM toolbox today, The Project Management Tool Box | Opensource, Nonprofits, and Web 2.0. It’s a detailed and well organized list, and I think reflects a very practical approach. The first thing that strikes me, is the overwhelming amount of tools available to the would-be PM. Certainly, there is no lack
Fixing IE8 mystery error KB927917
While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8. The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built. At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a
From Facebook to Drupal slides
I had a great time attending and presenting at CapitalCampDC this year, and look forward to doing it again. I talked about how we are using Facebook applications to run contests at D.C. United. You can view the slides at the link below.
George R.R. Martin Q&A
If you pre-ordered a Dance with Dragons like me, you might also be waiting for it to be delivered. While you internally debate the value of thriftiness in pre-ordering it (48% off!) versus more immediate gratification, you can instead read this spolier-free Q&A interview with George R.R. Martin about the book and the rest his