Link: Anatomy of a Feature

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“Oh, it’s easy, just a quick http call. I could write a script to do it in like 20 seconds.”
I have definitely said that more than once in the beginning of my career. Enthusiasm for a project is awesome but, don’t let it come back to bite you in the rear!
If you’re one to say …

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Link: Designers are not Programmers

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I found this article today and figured I would share it. I’ve had debates at my workplace about if the Designers should also know how to code and I believe this article reflects my thoughts on it.
This article was written by Lukas Mathis and although it was written in March of 2009, it is still …

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Be A Better Programmer

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Aaron Swartz posted an article today on his blog titled: How I Hire Programmers. If you haven’t done so already, read it!

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Google Maps API: Center Point Location

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As stated in the last article, I have been working a lot with the Google Maps API for a current client project. The most recent problem, was the application was required to display a quick overview of the current location the user was looking at. The City and the State.
Again, jQuery will be used in …

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Google Maps API: Custom Zoom Slider

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Google Maps API is just one of the API’s I’ve been working with recently. The most recent problem I’ve run into that needed to be solved was the ability to create a custom designed zoom slider, replacing the default. The default one was not gonna work for this project and the designer created a better …

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