Communicating Honestly
Most people suck at communicating—and I’m one of them. I get passionate about this issue because, really, it’s such an simple thing to change. Reordering a few words, pulling a few out, and generally saying less can have a profound impact—but then, why is it so hard? Because it’s hard to be honest, and it’s [...]
Programming and Practice
I’ve been thinking about practice lately—and about growth. Here are some thoughts: Programming is a complicated job. Many people see it as a craft, and as craftsmen, programmers must spend countless hours honing their skills and improving their expertise to reach a level to compete at the level they desire to be at. For example: [...]
Shrink Javascript with Diffable
It’s been some time since we’ve seen any new javascript minifiers out there. Google Closure was probably the most recent but many argue that was basically a re-hash of Yahoo’s YUI Compressor. This is something different. As web applications get better, there is more Javascript. Caching has been a big help to this—even though only [...]
Joomla Sphinx Search Plugin
Beware, this is beta quality software. Use at your own risk. As we understand already, Joomla doesn’t have relevant searching. It’s a shame since everything else is designed well, but this is a problem regarding implementation. This article explains how to setup sphinx to index your Joomla articles and use my plugin to search using [...]
Google Closure Review
So when Google released their Closure library almost three months ago I thought to myself: “Huh, that looks pretty cool. A modular, lightweight framework that has great UI tools. What’s not to love!?” I wanted then to write a post back then detailing how excited I was about it, but enough people wrote good pieces [...]
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