Okay, let me be slightly more nuanced about that statement: a few years ago Bootstrap had its merits (and I guess it still does). You can use it to quickly whip up a UI. I mean, it looks like every other UI you whipped up, but at least it isn't totally horrible to look at.
I hate it when documentation doesn't advocate best practices. Even worse, that means that virtually every tutorial on the bleeding internet copypastas those same bad practices. I'm looking at you here, socket.io!
We all know dates are hard, which is why we let libraries and built-in language features handle them. Right?
PHP has come a long way in recent years, and though it's still not by far the most elegant language ever PHP5.3+ at least looks like an actual programming language.
Right. So, I don't normally use this blog for promotion, but since I wrote about this app before and it's now (more or less) done and live, I thought it deserved a mention. May I present to the interwebz: FlirtTracker.
I don't know what I accidentally dragged into the Firefox awesomebar to trigger this Google search, but I'm sure it's pretty interesting...
I'm developing a (rather cool, I think) website/app (it's going to go live somewhere in the next few weeks, depending on how fast AAPL approves it) and as a part of that today I wanted to develop a circular countdown. A what? Well, essentially we needed a circular area to gradually 'fill up' clockwise until a certain time had been reached. In common speak, I was making a clock.
Okay, maybe not exactly *hate*, but it comes pretty darn close. I just need to rant about this, so stay with me.
I love AngularJS. It makes building rich internet applications easy and does so in a structured manner. These days, whenever I need to fallback to jQuery (due to client requirements, for instance) it feels like going back to the Dark Ages. But enough praise.
A while ago I blogged about configuring Apache to handle web sockets. Of course, haters all be like "why use Apache for this". Well, simple really: I had time nor inclination to switch our entire environment to something like NginX.
