May 26, 2014

Rails allows you to pass messages to the user between actions (“This ActionDispatch::Flash will self-destruct”), and because Rails, all the…

May 10, 2014

Session stores information that relates to a single user’s instance of your application “global reactive data store”: ** there is only one…

May 03, 2014

Back in March I wrote about letting my computer’s battery die in the middle of a meteor project, with the consequence being that I could not…

March 31, 2014

From Discover Meteor: find() returns a cursor, which is a reactive data source. Data from reactive sources will be updated automatically to…

March 28, 2014

Situations Matter by Sam Sommers is an eye-opening study of the influence of context on human interactions. Social psychologists call it…

March 23, 2014

I may be a little late to the game, but I am finally reading Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”, and right from the introduction I can understand…

March 20, 2014

D3 lines are rendered using linear interpolation by default. This means that the line connecting a series of points will trace a direct path…

March 19, 2014

Somehow I had worked out in my head that there could be only one remote. Origin. Turns out you can set and push to a (presumably) infinite…

March 15, 2014

Changing an element using multiple, chained transitions requires a little troubleshooting. You would think that just chaining them one after…

March 12, 2014

With the possible exception of UFOs, things don’t usually switch from being stationary to moving at maximum velocity without an intervening…

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