JavaScript as a real language Like many, the suggestion that JavaScript could be used in a fully architected system initially left me doubting the sanity of the person with whom I spoke. Over the years I have done several different types of Web Development; I am best known for my work with browser plugins in [...]

Recently I had need to attach multiple backbone.js Router objects to the same route; the purpose was to create a page which could have multiple sections that were unaware of each other, since the path gave them all the information they needed. This allowed a much looser form of coupling and gave us a bit [...]

I’m not going to go into the many reasons why you might want to do this; basically I find myself in need of more computers at my home office than I can conveniently store the boxes for, and I am not doing anything graphics related, so I started looking at how to set up my [...]

Jenkins on Mac OS X I just finished setting up a build server on Mac OS X using Jenkins (formerly Hudson). The company I’m working for (GradeCam) uses git and gitolite for our source control and so I expected no trouble using Jenkins to build our tools using the git plugin. However, I quickly ran [...]

Having recently begun switching all of my projects to use git for source control, I have been using gitosis on my server and have been pretty happy with it. However, the one thing that kinda annoyed me was that every time I wanted to create a new repository, I had to go add it to [...]

Finding ATL headers I needed to find the ATL headers that should be used with the currently selected generator in my CMake project (FireBreath). The reason for this is that if the user is running Visual Studio Express edition, the ATL headers won’t be there so we need to look for the Windows DDK (Driver [...]