conde-nast New Year, New Role Yesterday was my last day at the job I’ve been in for most of 2015. Later this month I’ll be joining the digital team at Condé Nast! I’ve been interested
Back-end Visualizing the 2015 SotU on TodaysMeet Now that you know how TodaysMeet works, here’s part 2: using the message queue architecture to build the SotU visualizations. TodaysMeet has a long history with political events. During the 2012 Presidential
django How TodaysMeet Works I want to write about TodaysMeet’s 2015 State of the Union site, but I realized I spent half the time on the existing architecture. So, this is part 1, and here is
api Irregular Update, 24/Oct/2014 Another update! Wow! The past two weeks have all been on TodaysMeet Teacher Tools except for the afternoon I spent dealing with a hurt finger (not exactly badly hurt but I still can’
architecture The Problem with TodaysMeet TodaysMeet is a project I started in 2008 to help my father solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as popular as it is—mostly in education—
Code JavaScript: Private Static Members, Part 2 Finally, it’s time to finish up the lesson on private static members and methods in JavaScript. Last time, I introduced the technique of creating and immediately executing a function, using parentheses. I
Code JavaScript: Private Static Members, Part 1 A little while ago I talked about creating private variables and methods in JavaScript. This works, but is not necessarily efficient: each instance of the class creates new copies of the members. While
firefox Firefox: Open in Blank Tab If you don’t use Firefox 3, go get it. Then finish this article. (Safari and Opera users are excused, but there’s no promise this will work for them.) One of my
client-side Private Variables in JavaScript Ok, enough of this social/ranting stuff. Time to write something vaguely technical. I have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. I think anyone who works with it does. Sometimes it just doesn’t
Browsers Chrome Is Not A Browser If you somehow haven’t heard of it, Google’s Chrome is a neat, quick, Acid2-compliant “browser” designed to work with web applications, not web pages. Chrome certainly looks like a modern browser,