Engineering Management
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 […]
My latest tutorial, Design Patterns in JavaScript, just got published over at Nettuts+. Check it out. If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or on the thread over at Nettuts.
Here’s a great comment by @eranation. I call it the crazy world of code: I agree, I can’t keep up. I just finished learning backbone.js and now I’m found out on that it’s old news, and I should use ember.js, cross that, it has opinions, I should use Meteor, no, AngularJS, no, Tower.js (on node.js), […]
We’re launching Lift today so that all businesses can take advantage of technology to increase their bottom line. UI Design, Web/Mobile Development, and consulting. No bull, just great work. Check us out.
My new tutorial – Web Scraping with NodeJS – is up on Nettuts+. I go through basic scraping methods but the real gold is in the second half, where I talk about using PhantomJS to scrape dynamic pages (pages with AJAX content). Check it out!
A fantastic article by Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet): Yes, anyone can be a coder, because that just means you write code. What makes you a software engineer is that you’re paid primarily to write code that ends up being used by your customers. The fact that your code isn’t Java or C++ doesn’t make you any […]
Software developers around the world are weeping tonight because AWS is down. This means Heroku is down, and that means a whole bunch of other sites are experiencing some serious outage. To be honest, this is upsetting but it happens. Guess which site is not down though? Good ol’ tilomitra.com, running on old-school shared hosting […]
My article “10 things I learned while interning at YUI” just got published over at Nettuts. Check it out! I’m a big admirer of Nettuts and Envato – they do a great job educating new designers, developers and entrepreneurs.
Story of my programming life!
Completely agree with Microsoft on this one. I am starting to prefer WP7’s UI over parts of the iOS user interface, and it is vastly superior to Android in terms of design and user experience. I think it’s time Apple made some adjustments to the iPhone interface because it’s starting to look a little dated […]
I wanted to share some photos from my recent trip to New Zealand and Tahiti. I spent a week around Auckland and Rotorua before flying out to Bora Bora for a week. Pictures View New Zealand Album View Bora Bora & Tahiti Album Videos Here’s an awesome video of me swimming amongst the coral reefs. […]
Some shots of a native iPad app that I have been making. I finished designing most of it, and have implemented the screens below. More details coming soon.
