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My Kindle Authoring Setup Part 2 – now with Markdown! 18 hours ago

As I was writing the previous post on my Kindle Authoring Setup, it occurred to me that markdown might be a solution to having to mark everything up with HTML tags. So I wrote a comment in there exactly as it hit my brain. After publishing that post, I went ahead and checked it out [...]

My Kindle Authoring Setup 18 hours ago

As mentioned previously, I have started working on self-publishing my Playing With Chaos book on the Amazon Kindle self publishing service. I quickly got the outline, first chapter, part of the second, some code and images done. Then last weekend I decided I better check into the whole publishing …

Playing With Chaos: The Book last week

Well, the title gives it away, so I just need to elaborate. I had so much fun and did so much research and wrote so much code for my Playing With Chaos presentation, and it went over so well and was very popular. But in the 45 minutes I had last week, or even in [...]

Beyond Tellerand – Play! last week

I just got back last night from Beyond Tellerand – Play! This is a conference put on by my good friend Marc Thiele. Formerly known as FFK, it’s a conference that I’ve wanted to go to for a while, and which Marc and I have talked about for several years. We finally got it …

How I Fell Back in Love with Android: A CyanogenMod Story last month

Almost two years ago I got my first Android device, a Nexus One. I was not at all impressed right off the bat. Coming from the iPhone world, things just didn’t seem … “right” about it. On the other hand, I was intrigued by it and kept wanting to check it out. Eventually, I …

JavaScript Object Creation: Learning to Live Without β€œnew” 2 months ago

I wrote yet another article on object creation in JavaScript. This time, for Adobe! I’m really glad to see that they are reaching out to publish articles like this. I hope to see a lot more on similar subjects. And I hope that means that they may have additional tooling and products in the …

Thoughts on Private in JS 2 months ago

When you get into a bit higher end JavaScript patterns, one thing you’ll read very early on is this concept: that although JavaScript does not have private members or access modifiers, it is possible to achieve this behavior with closures. This is often done through an IIFE and is the …

SublimeText2 Plugin: RunBuild 3 months ago

I was talking to my coworker, Todd Anderson, today about running build systems in Sublime Text 2. It’s a great editor, very powerful and configurable. But somewhat of a lack of documentation on all those features. One problem we both had was setting up multiple build systems on a project, …
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CSS Roadblock 4 months ago

Generally I like to use my blog for dispensing knowledge, advice, opinions, thoughts, musings, and of course, FACTS. But occasionally I get stuck on a point and all my research leads me to a dead end, and I’ll write a post that asks for help. I figure the answers just might help someone …

JavaScript Code Reuse: Object.create 4 months ago

FACT: After my post of a few days ago, I’m going to try to avoid beginning blog posts with the word “FACT”. I think labeling something as an ALL-CAPS FACT is just taunting someone to come along and dispute whatever you say. But anyway, I’ve already done it again. OK, in …

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