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I love abstraction. It's great to compartmentalize complexity and keep your application modular. SQL is not that. Relying on SQL strings in your code ties[..]

One of my eureka moments as a developer came when my programming pair suggested I separate some very simple math in the body of a method into another[..]

Sometimes, I tweet. When I tweet, sometimes people agree with me. One such occasion happened recently when I said this.

Are you working on a PhoneGap/Cordova app that needs to be able to communicate with other native applications? You may want to get the demo code, give it[..]

Work Locally

Working locally means that you have an instance of your web app running on your machine. You edit files directly on your machine, rather than[..]

Better Errors

Does this screen look familiar? Do you notice anything wrong with this picture?

I have been a (relatively) long time Sublime Text 2 user. Early 2011, I was running Ubuntu on my laptop and wasn't happy with any text editors I was[..]