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Why Aren’t There More Hybrid Apps?

28 Jan

I was listening to a radio show this morning and they had Brendan Witt on talking about an app he made called Angle Mail. While the app itself is not terribly important to this discussion — though it’s for charity, … Read More »

Open Source, Technical, WebDev Leave a comment

httpd Vs. Nginx Vs. HAProxy

12 Aug

The three most popular tools for proxying HTTP(S) traffic are httpd, Nginx, and HAProxy. As more and more DevOps flock to “the cloud” for running their infrastructure, configuring elastic HTTP(S) proxies are becoming more and more important. (It should be … Read More »

DevOps, Open Source, Technical, WebDev devops, HAProxy, httpd, Nginx, open source, software, webdev 6 Comments

JavaScript Variable Scoping Rules

23 Jul

The scoping of variables is JavaScript (or ECMAScript to be pedantic) can be very confusing and unintuitive for those coming from languages like C/C++ or Java. In this post I attempt to distill the rules of scoping variables in JavaScript, … Read More »

Technical, WebDev ecmascript, html, javascript Leave a comment

How to Properly Start an HTML Document

18 Jul

Ever wondered what those first few lines of an HTML file — that you probably copy-and-pasted from elsewhere — actually mean? Well this blog post will try to shed some light on that. The Doctype The first line of a … Read More »

Technical, WebDev html, webdev Leave a comment

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