Articles

How big data can empower services that tell us what's next and not just what's happened

Thoughts and ramblings about my 15 months as Director of Front-end Development at Obama for America

Notes and slide deck from my presentation on CSS3 at DevChatt 2011

Tackling the challenges of presenting big data from the Chattanooga City Budget in a meaningful user experience.

How to get a local development environment running on OS X by using Homebrew.

How to get notifications to your smartphone when your websites go offline.

How to use @media queries to deliver high resolution graphics to retina displays.

Notes from my presentation at DevChatt 2010.

Django template filter for converting datetime objects to relative time strings.

Django middleware for logging out a user after a certain amount of inactivity.

Django middleware for removing "www." from URLs.

Django template filter for wrapping ampersands in a CSS class for better styling.

Observations and best practices learned from years of working with HTML email.

How to create a simple script for backing up Django databases to Amazon S3.

How to set up OX X Snow Leopard to run as a local development server.

How to configure TextMate to encode HTML entities for valid XHTML.

Learn jQuery basics by building a lightbox.