This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Today I decided to try something new. Since I’ve been working with JavaScript libraries for the past few weeks, I wanted to go in a completely …
Sending text from a file to the X11 clipboard to copy and paste
One of the best parts about being a software developer is that I get to build and improve tools to make my life easier. On Monday I did just that. Copy and Paste A common task anyone does on a computer is to copy and paste. This acts as an easy way to export and …
Learning (and Failing at) Backbone.js
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. For this week’s tech learning session I decided to tackle backbone.js. Of all of the technology I’ve been wanting to learn, backbone.js has been the one …
Available for Hire
With the recent birth of my daughter I’ve been doing some serious thinking about my role as a freelance developer and what I want to accomplish with my clients. What I’ve come to realize is that the projects I enjoy the most are technology projects that help my clients build software businesses. There is something …
Learning Node.js
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Since I’ve been learning JavaScript libraries the past few weeks (CoffeeScript, Knockout.js), I decided it was time jump over to the server and learn node.js. Setup …