Google recently release Universal Analytics. It requires some code changes but I think the new developer interface is going to be quite a bit more usable. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/ Happy New API – The best change I see (in the first 10…

Long story short: Don’t be fancy when you dynamically inject your Google API script call into the DOM. Inject it to the BODY of your document using plain javascript. I was struggling mightily with getting the Google Maps API to…

When setting up a WordPress site, these are the first plugins that I install on every project. Google Analyticator Google XML sitemaps – for SEO Social (by MailChimp) – to cross post into Twitter & Facebook Google Adsense PLugin (by…

Smashing Magazine has an article on how to create a custom post type in WordPress. I was considering building out a content website with Django+Mezzanine but I think it will be much more cost effective if I can get away…

Being a fan of Python programming I have developed a fondness for  CoffeeScript. Although some of the whitespace conventions for CoffeeScript are quirky the code is much easier to write. I think however CoffeeScript’s vendetta against parentheses and curly braces…

The jQuery concept of Deferred objects feels a bit more complicated than what I used to do with MochiKit‘s Async library. It could simply be the naming conventions that jQuery has chosen. Deferred asynchronous calls can be used for more…

I really enjoy using Backbone.Marionette. I was recently tasked with a pretty exciting opportunity at work: build a cross platform mobile web app. This project has been (still is) incredibly challenging for me because I’ve never built anything like this…