Engineering Management
Make your Github Pages look pretty. Every time I want to make Github Pages for my open source projects, I start from scratch. I decided to fix that today. This morning, I took some time to make PrettyPages, an HTML template that makes it really easy to make nice looking Github Pages. Just copy/paste the […]
I’m a big fan of tooltips and popovers – widgets that provides contextual information on demand. I see them all over the place but I didn’t find one in YUI that I particularly liked, so I wrote my own. If you use YUI 3 for front-end development, you can now take advantage of Y.Tipsy and […]
I pushed a new version of the YUI GridBuilder recently. It includes a fix for the Chrome 25 inline-block issue, and pulls in Grids as of YUI 3.9.0. The app also looks prettier, and has unit test coverage. Check it out and try using it for your next project..
Check out this awesome video. I play a small role in it!
My second talk at YUIConf got published a few days ago. In this talk, I look at Windows 8, specifically the WinJS environment. One of my roles at the YUI Team was to make sure the library runs both on Win8 (IE10) and also in WinJS, the new “Metro” style native app environment. Turns out […]
I’m a little late on this, but my smaller talk at YUIConf got released on YUI Theater a few days ago. Most of the talk is on skinning YUI widgets and it’s presented very eloquently by Jeff Conniff. I jump in at the end and give a brief introduction to the YUI Responsive Grid Builder […]
Here’s something I hacked up quickly today. I’m not a fan of the default YUI3 Tabview skins, so I tried to make more modern. Check out the demo.
If you’re optimizing your website for IE10 on tablets, get ready to deal with -ms-touch-action. This is a new CSS property introduced by Microsoft in IE10. Essentially, it determines what default browser behaviors to enable in touch mode. When I say default behavior, I mean things like: Making the whole page do the “elastic-bounce” when […]
I recently moved some of my private repos to Bitbucket from Github. This is something I should have done a while ago. To me, whether to use Github vs. Bitbucket boils down to two questions that you must ask yourself when you start a new project: Will this be open-source? Do I expect there to […]
From Paul Graham’s recent post on Black Swan Farming: The first time Peter Thiel spoke at YC he drew a Venn diagram that illustrates the situation perfectly. He drew two intersecting circles, one labelled “seems like a bad idea” and the other “is a good idea.” The intersection is the sweet spot for startups. This […]
This is not the first time I’ve seen posts like this from the tech community. Now, people can wear whatever they want, whenever they want, but I have a pet peeve with the whole “focus”, “focus”, “focus” routine that some startup founders are preaching these days. Focus is great. Focus is necessary. However, when you say […]
I recently competed in a 24hr Yahoo! Hack Day where I designed and developed Glance along with @allenr. With Glance, we wanted to show that you could make great looking web apps that work great in all browsers across desktop and mobile without resorting to CSS Media Queries or User-Agent sniffing, or changing the code […]
”Right now, Mars is hundreds of millions of kilometers away, meaning that even at the speed of light, signals take fourteen minutes to get from Earth to Mars. If you do the math, that means that seven minutes after the entire landing process is all finished, back here on Earth we’ll just be getting our […]
The product may yet succeed, but I’m not holding my breath. One of the comments that I found to be insightful (from Ronmovies): I generally use iChat and Skype for chatting, but I was curious and checked out Airtime. The first thing that greeted me was a Log In with Facebook form that warned that […]
