gulp is the new black. It’s quickly supplanting Grunt for JavaScript builds because it’s faster and simpler. When we replaced our Gruntfile with a gulpfile on one of our projects, our build script sped up by an order of magnitude and became much more...
I do a lot of Python work, and I’m a huge fan of virtualenv, which allows you to set up a completely isolated Python environment. This is hugely helpful to keep various dependencies from multiple projects from clobbering one another. It’s so helpful, that...
With apologies to Mr. Poe: I was fuming in frustration, sitting clicking at my station, I’ll spare you some narration, but I was getting pretty sore. ‘Surely there must be some method, whereby changes are detected, And perhaps then be injected into my...
In my last blog post I had just discovered the Meteor JavaScript-based web application platform. I have had a little more time to play with it and I am still having a lot of fun with it. On a personal project I was working on, I needed to add user accounts. The...
With the advent of new Chrome Experiments such as Maze and RollIt, we’ve been discovering a new way of HTML5 gaming – using our smartphones as controllers to play browser games. While this seems quite magical up front, the inner workings are actually quite...