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How to Debug in IE on a Mac

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Here’s how to configure a Mac to debug web sites in IE

Leaving Solution Land

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Most devs are naturally inclined to start finding solutions as soon as we hear a problem stated. Yet no matter how satisfying it may be to immediately board the bus to Solution Land, it is always worth it to take a moment and ask ourselves a simple question: “Do I actually understand the problem?”.

Building vs. Learning on Agile Teams

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Though agile methodologies are optimized for delivery, sometimes a different approach is required. Hypothesis testing from the Lean Startup movement gives us such an approach.

You Can Have My Link Juice

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I’ve been looking into SEO recently and ran into a interesting nugget of functionality called rel=”nofollow”. Though I’ve heard about it before, I never fully appreciated its implications until now.

Things I Wish I Knew as a Comp Sci Student

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I would guess that most CS students don’t know what they need to pay attention to. After all, there are millions of ideas competing for their attention and they all seem equally important. But they’re not.

Dysfunctional Programming 101

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Functional programming has been all the rage lately, yet surprisingly few have heard about an intriguing alternative known as Dysfunctional (or FUctional) programming.

Newly Discovered Nostradamus Works Predict Technology Breakthroughs

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BREAKING NEWS – A previously unknown book of quatrains by Nostradamus appears to predict key breakthroughs in the field of information technology.

Lipstick on a Pig is Not UX

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Microsoft’s new Visual Studio attempts to “engender the impression that VS feels lighter and less complex”. In other words, instead of radically rethinking what a great development experience would be like, they focused on obfuscating the problem.

“DevOps is Ruining My Craft”

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Below is an excerpt from an interview with a disenfranchised systems administrator. All identifies have been kept anonymous to protect the innocent.

An Interview With Yours Truly

For some reason, the good people at the Code Project asked me to do an interview. I did and you can read the results here.

Good Devs Don’t Like Magic

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Solutions of the “magical” variety go out of their way to hide (obfuscate?) the underlying implementation. They present the developer with a Faustian bargain: I’ll make it easy for you to get things done so long as you don’t question how I work.