Elf Sternberg
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02Dec
Is backbone.js important enough to warrant its own recruitment category?
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat, javascript
I got a call last night from a recruiter who was looking for “A front end guy: Javascript, HTML, CSS. But the real kicker is they need someone with experience in Backbone. Do you know anyone with that?” I said, “Sure. Me.” I told him about the tutorials I had written for Backbone, the current [...]
I have to say that I’m really disappointed with .net magazine this month. .Net is a popular magazine for web designer and developers, and frequently has great articles and tutorials. For someone in my class of developer it’s not always that useful, but there’s always one or two tutorials worth perusing– and reading the tutorials [...]
It used to be possible for Linux users to find and save the movie file from a Flash download with earlier versions of the Flash plug-in. Flash put the file in the /tmp directory and if you were quick you could copy it elsewhere. If you had a plethora of Flash files, you could often [...]
Last night at the Django meetup, we also talked about unit testing. Someone mentioned continuous integration, and we all discussed our favorites. At one point, the fellow at whose offices we were holding the meeting mentioned that his team used Hudson and pulled up an example on the overhead projector. I mentioned that Hudson was [...]
I have this t-shirt. It reads: “Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil.” Because if we take those two first popular truisms and put them together, we get a very unpopular conclusion. The truisms of our business are “It’s an attention economy, where revenue is driven by how much attention you can get,” [...]
While visiting with friends and family this weekend, I ran into a long-missed flame who said she was frustrated because she’d gone back to school to renew her web design business, last heard from about a decade ago, but the school seemed insistent about teaching her programming instead. Her head was full of PHP and [...]
I don’t know if this is a common phenomenon. I’ve spoken with a lot of artists who swear by their Wacoms and don’t ever work on anything else at all, but I’ve found that while my Wacom Bamboo is good for some things, when it comes to rapid design I’m much happier tossing off sheet [...]
13Jul
This is not my politics blog, but I still gotta link to Fafnir:
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat
What he said. More to come.
10Jun
“If I just knew HTML, I could make a trunkload of money!”
Posted by Elf Sternberg as chat, web development
I’d gone to Borders Books find myself a copy of the Ruby Pocket Reference. I’ve long liked having paper books for some things; I don’t need the tactility of paper for fiction, but for reference it’s absolutely critical, especially when I’ve reached the point of having so many tabs open on the browser that I’ve [...]
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