Blog Archive

2012

May 15 Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

May 15 Ethics, Software Engineering, and The Web

May 07 Speedy 1.0 Released

April 23 Understanding Other Developers - Users Of Our Development Products

April 17 Why It Is Hard To Minify On The Fly

April 13 Using Bitbucket In Addition To Github

April 12 Why I Continue To Choose PHP

April 11 4 Reasons To Choose PHP For Your Next New Project

April 10 Why I Love PHP

April 10 An Hour A Week To Better Documentation

April 05 Faster Mobile Sites

April 03 Drupal 8 and Front End Performance

March 29 Why Minify JavaScript?

March 21 Introducting the Speedy Module

March 20 Drupal, HP Cloud, and PHP

March 13 Learning From Verizon Wireless Experience Failures

March 12 Understanding The Hard Stuff

March 05 Switching From Bash to Zsh

February 20 Jekyll Deploy Scripts

February 13 LossLess Theme Image Optimization with ImageOptim

February 09 How I Switched My Blog From Drupal To Jekyll

February 08 Why I Switched My Blog From Drupal To Jekyll

2011

December 27 Protocol Relative URLs in Drupal 7

December 26 Drupal Does Not Respect https:// When Caching

October 17 DrupalCamp Michigan Registration Re-Opened

October 03 The First DrupalCamp Michigan

September 20 The Drupal Community and Front End Performance

September 13 PHP Needs A New Package Manager

September 08 SplFixedArray, An Underutilized PHP Gem

July 20 PHP 5.3 Performance: __toString() vs. A Method

May 16 JavaScript Theme Functions in Drupal

May 01 Translatable Strings In Drupal JavaScript

April 05 Build your JavaScript With jQuery 1.5.2 in Drupal 7

April 04 How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less

March 17 Drupal 8 JavaScript Excellence Roadmap

February 17 Making Drupal's JavaScript Rock Hard Awesome

January 24 Who Rules Drupal?

2010

December 15 3 Tips To Make Your jQuery Selectors Faster

November 10 Review: Even Faster Web Sites

November 09 How You Can Help Make DrupalCon Chicago Rock

November 02 Fixing The Drupal JavaScript Problem Examples Explained

November 01 Fixing The Drupal JavaScript Problem

October 26 3 Lessons Learned From The Drupal 1 and 3 Codebases

October 08 Making Drupal OpenID More User Friendly

September 23 Retrieving And Using Data From Google Analytics

September 22 Tracking Custom Variables With Google Analytics

September 16 Building A Drupal Site or Module Documentation Site With Doxygen

September 15 4 Reasons To Consider Doxygen Over phpDocumentor

September 09 Script Editing in Chrome 6

August 31 Performance Is Green

June 10 Accessing Libraries, Whether In Drupal or Elsewhere

June 09 Safari Reader: An Example Of An Accessibility Failure

June 08 Installing and Using The Zend Framework Via Pear

June 03 The Time To Embrace PHP 5.3 Is Here

June 01 Debugging in Drupal 7

May 17 3 Tips For Using External Libraries With Drupal

May 13 The New Way To Generate Hashes In Drupal 7

May 10 Why H.264 Has Won And What It Will Take To Change

April 29 Architect Using Diagrams

April 27 It's Time For NoMVC

April 26 Building Web APIs Developers Want To Consume

April 12 jQuery Date and Time Pickers

March 05 Visualize Your Page Size with Browser Size

March 04 Showdown: Blueprint vs. the 960 Grid

March 02 More Git GUIs

March 01 Pluggable Entity Operations in Drupal 7

February 26 Farbtastic 1.3u

February 24 SmartGit - The Best Git Gui So Far

February 23 Building Your Own Git Server

February 22 Switching to Git

February 19 Downloading Dependencies With Drush Make

February 17 Farbtastic is Dead, Long Live Farbtastic

February 15 Putting Password Strength Testers Everywhere

January 19 Removing "(not verified)" in Drupal 7

January 15 Battle of the Drupal 6 Admin Themes

January 11 Sequel Pro - A Fantastic Mac MySQL GUI

January 08 5 More Hot & Free Drupal 6 Themes

January 06 5 Hot & Free Drupal 6 Themes

January 05 How To Evaluate A CMS

January 04 First Step In Choosing A CMS

2009

December 08 Managing Comment Spam

December 03 Performance Comparison: document.createElement('img') vs. new Image()

December 01 Preloading Images with jQuery and JavaScript

November 30 Good Drupal Search Without Solr

November 23 The Sad Truth of Internet Explorer

November 20 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 4

November 19 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 3

November 13 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 2

November 04 Building A Stack Overflow Clone With Drupal - Part 1

November 03 Bringing Architecture To Your Software

November 02 Are Forums A Thing Of The Past?

October 29 The Bazaar Epic Failure

October 28 Life After Being Hacked

October 14 Two Reasons Internet Explorer 6 Is Not A Bad Browser

October 13 Simple Block Forms in Drupal

October 12 Why I Chose Drupal Instead of Wordpress

October 08 Regular Expressions and Unit Tests, A Beautiful Match

October 07 5 Free Regular Expression Tools

October 06 Regular Expression Primer and Guides

October 02 Web Hosting Woes (What To Look Out For In A Host)

October 01 Operating on Features Not Browser Versions

September 30 Choosing The Best Programming Language

September 29 HTML5 and CSS3 - It's Time To Start Using Them

September 28 Welcome to the Engineered Web

September 28 960 Grid