Node.js - First Impressions
I’ve spent some of my personal time over this past week looking into Node.js. I’ll be up-front in stating that my efforts have not been particularly broad, but I have gone reasonably deep into the...
View ArticlejQuery Tools Form Validator and Twitter Bootstrap
I’ve had a couple of folks ask me about the form validation I mentioned in my last post, so here’s the code.It’s fairly basic IMO. This is public domain code; use as you will and at your own risk....
View ArticleIdeas of March
This time last year, Chris wrote about blogging and how Twitter has reduced the quality of online discussions by shifting the focus from longer form discussions to shorter tweets. He was hoping that he...
View ArticleMy Facebook Adventure
Earlier this year I made a difficult choice: to leave Message Systems and join Facebook.I moved countries to work with OmniTI/Message Systems back in 2004, and I’ve worked with the team for almost 8...
View ArticleMy Facebook Adventure Continues
I’d promised a couple of folks back in Maryland that I’d keep updating this blog to let them know what I’m getting up to. I’m a little overdue on this, but it does mean that I get to write a more...
View ArticleDiet + Weight loss
This year one of the changes I made was around my eating and exercise habits. I managed to lose 30lbs in just under 3 months. I wanted to share how I did this because it seemed much easier than I...
View ArticleWatchman
A couple of days ago we announced Watchman on the Facebook Engineering blog.Watchman watches files and records information about them as they change. You can arrange to trigger build or test steps in...
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