Author Archives: jon

What I wish I’d known

Josh Fraser and I were discussing the other day the little tidbits of knowledge that we wished someone would’ve told us on day one instead of having to learn them on our own (later than we would’ve liked). He wrote … Continue reading

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Greasemonkey to save time

I’ve been playing with Greasemonkey again. For those that don’t know already, Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that lets you run javascript scripts in the browser to execute on various web pages. The scripts can be excluded to only run … Continue reading

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Calling all procrastinators

Tomorrow (or today technically, but it’s not the next day till I wake up as far as I’m concerned) is the last day to submit an application for TechStars. Since I’m a big procrastinator I thought I’d write this post … Continue reading

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Bug squashing…

Bugs are a fact of life as a developer…there’s no avoiding it.  The really frustrating bugs, though, are the ones that drive you mad and then turn out to be the simplest little thing.  This is where having another fresh … Continue reading

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Simple Things

Sometimes it’s the simple, but clever things that are most interesting.  A great example is this post: Sniff browser history for improved user experience To summarize the post, basically it describes a method to allow you to check if the … Continue reading

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The Power of Collaboration

I’m sure everyone already knows that collaboration is, in general, a good thing, but I often forget just how important it can be.  There’s a lot of advantages to sharing your ideas and working with someone else to flesh them … Continue reading

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Stupid IE

I spent a good chunk of my day today diagnosing an odd problem with IE that I figured I’d share in case it might somehow help someone else out there. I’ve known for a while that there are a few … Continue reading

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