As an Innovationeer, I seek out the interesting technological developments that can make my code more elegant. One of those developments has been jQuery’s Deferred object, implemented in jQuery 1.5 and after.

The Problem:
Imagine you’re the referee in a dumptruck race. The first one to reach the finishline and dump the trash [...]

Inspired by a PHP version of this found here, here is a Javascript function that takes the number of the month (0-11) and the year and returns the Date object of the first Monday in that month.  I find it useful for determining weeks in the month.

Two months into being an Innovationeer at Axeda, I ace the waking up to work in the morning test with flying colors.  Who wouldnt want to be at the cutting edge of technology, with knowledgeable peers and mentors actively looking out for me, working on projects that are not only competitive, but compete [...]

A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

- Erma Bombeck

One could argue that writing code can be boiled down to writing a series of AND, OR, and NOT statements.  Anyone [...]

ro·bust·ness: the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of  exceptional inputs or  stressful environmental conditions.

I had the bittersweet experience of watching my app break in a demo, bitter because everyone was watching and sweet because it was a demo.  The failure resulted from my assumption that the wireless [...]

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Charles Caleb Colton

With blocks on your schedule filling up, it’s easy to overlook the nuggets of time that, with proper management, allow you [...]

A term I hear often at work is “fire drill.” Priorities get elevated until there’s a problem and suddenly all eyes focus on it, scurrying for a solution. This surplus of effort detracts from other priorities, allowing them to inflate and erupt in a chain reaction of multi-stress. Not fun, and not efficient. Much of [...]

What does change feel like to you? A trickle? A stream? A firehose? Is there a degree of change that is easy for everybody to deal with, beyond which it becomes a hassle, then a crisis?

When I graduated with my Bachelor’s back in 2002, I had never experienced real change. I was not prepared [...]

In the age of print, lengthy articles gave readers the feeling that they got their money’s worth.  Writing was planting a seed that bore fruit, but only after investing a certain amount of time, emphasizing quality over quantity.

140 characters revolutionized the idea that content has to be lengthy.  If print [...]

How satisfying is it when you set out to accomplish something, strive for it and get it, all in a nicely packaged crescendo to climax?  For most of us living in the real world, these sorts of single-play successes are not the norm.  Instead, we have to work at it with patience and persistence, and [...]