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Mar 24

Why I Left Reedsy

When Companies Fail To Listen To Their Customers — Decades before I became a software engineer, architecting enterprise web applications, I made a living as a graphic designer. I love design work and it fed a part of my soul that loves the creative process. Once I made the jump from designer to developer, those design skills followed me…

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Why I Left Reedsy
Why I Left Reedsy
Authors

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 13

Virtual Servers vs Docker: The REAL Pros and Cons

Will future applications still be using containerization? — Once again I find myself swimming against the ever changing current of pop-technology to bring some rational thought and reason back to into our industry that seems to be sorely lacking these days. Again, I’ll probably get hate mail for writing this, so be it. …

Technology

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Virtual Servers vs Docker: The REAL Pros and Cons
Virtual Servers vs Docker: The REAL Pros and Cons
Technology

16 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Sep 2, 2022

Build Your Own JavaScript Ninja Game In Minutes

How to Easily Create a Canvas-based HTML Game in JavaScript From Scratch — Would you spend 4 hours of your life watching some guy write a JavaScript game while you watch? I did. And it was some of the best 4 hours of my life, professionally speaking. Learn JavaScript By Watching in Real-time Several months ago I ran across a YouTube video with a creator who’d written a side-scrolling…

JavaScript

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Build Your Own JavaScript Ninja Game In Minutes
Build Your Own JavaScript Ninja Game In Minutes
JavaScript

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Apr 6, 2022

12 Programmer Memes We All Need

Sometimes A Picture and a Salty Quip Says It All — I love memes. Technology memes are the best. So I’ve collected a handful for your reading enjoyment. Take a 5-minute break and feel free to share them with your friends and co-workers. Code Quality This meme has been around for a long time, but it’s always fun to revisit it because, well…

Programming

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12 Programmer Memes We All Need
12 Programmer Memes We All Need
Programming

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 21, 2022

Add A WordPress-Style Update Utility To Any Application

Update Your End-user Application In One Click Using JavaScript, PHP, Composer, and GitHub — Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just push code to GitHub and automagically update millions of your application installs? Your users get notified that a new plugin, module, or application update is available to download and install—all with the click of their mouse! Now you can add self-updating elegance…

JavaScript

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Add A WordPress-Style Update Utility To Any Application
Add A WordPress-Style Update Utility To Any Application
JavaScript

7 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 7, 2022

How to Be a Goddamned UI Rock Star

Use this JavaScript library to easily, elegantly animate basic DOM changes. — Long before I was a software engineer at Disney, I was writing code that made basic changes to the DOM a much more elegant and programmer-friendly process. Even at Disney’s studios, you’d run into engineers who treated the UI like it was the bastard child of programming. Showing or hiding…

JavaScript

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How To Be a Goddamned UI Rock Star
How To Be a Goddamned UI Rock Star
JavaScript

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Feb 8, 2022

Stop Doing Bad UI Validation

How To Validate User Experiences in JavaScript the Right Way — Back in 2011, I was working for Disney building UI for their Next Generation Experiences. We had 150 local developers plus a massive off-shore team all working together to build some exceptionally beautiful UI. The problem we encountered then with our forms was the same issue all of us have…

Programming

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Stop Doing Bad UI Validation
Stop Doing Bad UI Validation
Programming

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Jan 10, 2022

JavaScript Will Supplant Every Programming Language There Is

JavaScript — one ring to rule them all! — Programming computers for the past 40 years teaches you a few things about technology; not the least of which is how technology comes in and is eventually replaced by something newer and better. …

JavaScript

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JavaScript Will Supplant Every Programming Language There Is
JavaScript Will Supplant Every Programming Language There Is
JavaScript

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·Dec 16, 2021

jQuery Will Still Be Around Long After Angular Is Dead

Why this mature JavaScript library is still more popular than ever! — On the ever-changing landscape of JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and other UI widgets, nothing stirs more controversy among developers than jQuery. It’s become nothing short of a religious inquisition among a handful of zealots within the technology community. …

JavaScript

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jQuery Will Still Be Around Long After Angular Is Dead
jQuery Will Still Be Around Long After Angular Is Dead
JavaScript

8 min read


Dec 12, 2021

Technology’s Problem with Ageism

Why Younger and Older Developers Need Each Other — If you’re like most young people, the thought of working with an older developer or software engineer sounds boring. …

Agile

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Technology’s Problem with Ageism
Technology’s Problem with Ageism
Agile

8 min read

Beau Beauchamp

Beau Beauchamp

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Technology entrepreneur. Web application architect. Paranormal sci-fi romance writer.

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