I’m sitting on the train heading from Seattle to Portland today. I live in Portland, but spend a significant amount of time in the beautiful Emerald City. The time on the train is immensely useful to think about concepts, thoughts, introspect, code and generally be uninterrupted in focus. All the while it makes the 3... Continue reading →

Ok, I’ll admit it, I have a soft spot in my heart for Windows 8. At least in the tablet form. I honestly prefer it over the iPad model of little icons displayed in a grid over a background with the bar of app icons at the bottom. Don’t get me wrong, I find the... Continue reading →

Warning, if you’re looking for tech, this isn’t the article. I’m writing this up in relation to the people in the industry. Geoloqi goes ESRI! Geoloqi and ESRI are the same force now, if anyone was watching Geoloqi they already know this. But I just wanted to follow up since I know personally – as... Continue reading →

In the last blog entry I wrote up vows.js for testing JavaScript, in this I’ve tried out another testing framework called mocha. This framework is pretty extensive as you can do the things you do with vows.js as well as a lot of other techniques. In addition to mocha I’ve added a few other things... Continue reading →

Often the tendency has been, and largely still is in Enterprises, to build things really large. Doing big design up front (BDUF) all the way to creating massive JavaScript libraries for generating JavaScript from non-JavaScript langauges, leading to a huge case of analysis paralysis and other such keywords that all point to the mythic man... Continue reading →