This weekend I finally succumbed to my urges, and it wasn’t the new Apple iPhone! This time I broke down and got a Surface Pro from Microsoft. I know, I think you could have knocked my wife over with a feather when I told her. The thing…
An automated diagramming tool that draws SVG Waterfall diagrams of a JavaScript system on the fly. Fantastic.
Well, iOS has arrived and it was time for a refresh anyway. I took the time to restyle almost every element of the application for iOS7, including my first de-styled placard. It’s growing up, I suppose.
I don’t have a lot to show on this one, a resource loader is not the most visual of elements. But suffice it to say that I spent a fair amount of time designing a very extensive relative resource loading system. That means that if…
As part of my investigation into SOOJS I decided to tackle an automated testing system to help with Test Driven Development. Test Runner was the result. In only 2 days the entire system was written, in fact using itself to validate the code. As you…
I decided to take on a redesign of my Game Tracker application again. This time, though, I set a high bar for myself. It was to be totally restyled and cross-platform ready. This meant taking it on as a JavaScript application. But that didn’t mean…
I am always baffled by the relationships in systems. When I am pulled into a project I find myself spending a fair amount of time diagramming things so I can better understand these relationships. And it is usually in these diagrams that I find many…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how all of this “code” stuff can be written so that it is most approachable and maintainable. I’m still investigating this line of thinking, but I think some strides have been made over the past few…
You are about to be made very happy. Apache ships with OSX! This should be quite simple. (note: you will need admin rights to your machine for this) The simple… Open your browser (oh, you already have) and go to: http://localhost/ That breaks for now,…
I seem to need to do this every year or so, and I always forget that it is not very hard. These are my steps and settings: YMMV. Download Tomcat (latest version, the zip — not installers) Unzip the archive there in the downloads folder…