Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 11/14/2015 - 10:29 AM
Recently Trekk was gracious enough to let me switch my workstation from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 15.04. This decision to actually evaluate making the switch stemmed from a number of different reasons. First and foremost I had been holding on to an outdated version on Windows for far too long and it really was time for me to either update to Windows 10 or start to evaluate different options.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 11/01/2015 - 04:29 PM
Over the last month I have been tearing a lot of jQuery out of a pretty large JavaScript application and noticed that to completely removed jQuery from my application I am going to need to come up with a clever way to reproduce jQuery Validate. This decision made me pause for a moment because jQuery Validate is a pretty nice library for validating HTML forms and trying to reproduce this functionality seemed like a waste of time.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 09:59 AM
In the past couple of months I have been really noticing some of the great work on Codepen. I feel like my eyes have been opened to the value that a site like Codepen has to offer. Not only can you mock up concepts and share them between friends and co-workers, but Codepen is also a great outlet for creativity.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Wed, 08/05/2015 - 12:52 PM
The last couple of custom Drupal themes I created called for a very simple grid system to be included in the project. For example, lets say we needed to work off of a grid of 12 columns. Normally we would need to go through and take the outside width of the parent container and divide each column up by this width and set each column by hand to get the exact width of each column in our grid.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 08/01/2015 - 10:52 PM
Lately I have been writing a lot of C++ on Linux and have been really enjoying it. I love the flexibility of jumping right in on the terminal, writing my code, and compiling all from one spot. As my writing continued and my program evolved I realized that I needed some worker threads to process some pretty expensive computation that I did not want hogging my main thread.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 07/25/2015 - 11:46 PM
Over the last year or so the Drupal projects I have been involved with at work have required the need to work with a lot of video files being maintained in Drupal. Well, as you can imagine the larger the files we are maintaining the greater the strain this puts on our host to serve the files.