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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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. …

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. …