Taking on New Challenges: Joining the IE Team
How I Started I’ve been into computers since I was a kid. The story is long, but I essentially started writing software in the 5th grade at North Elementary School in East Liverpool, Ohio. We had a...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Synching Remote Locations
I’ve been thinking about a problem that I’ve solved before. I’ve solved it a million ways but I’ve never really thought about which approach is best. I’ve decided to request some input on the subject....
View ArticlePowershell: Selecting files that don’t contain specified content
I had a quick task today that required that I search a couple hundred directories and look in specific files to see if they contained a certain piece of code. All I wanted was the list of files that...
View ArticleDetecting CSS3 Transition Support
I’m in the process of developing a new blog theme for myself. I was trying to use CSS3 transitions but I wanted to fall back to JavaScript if transitions weren’t supported. I really want to avoid...
View ArticleCSS: Opacity vs Alpha (via rgba and hsla)
Once again, I was working on my new blog theme again and ran into the need to set the opacity of a background div without affecting the children. The support for opacity is spotty and slightly...
View ArticleJavaScript animation timing made easy (requestAnimationFrame,...
I often find myself writing a lot of the same code from project to project. One of those pieces of code is around using requestAnimationFrame and cancelRequestAnimationFrame. I wrote a quick and dirty...
View ArticleCross-browser event hookup made easy
I seem to be on a roll. I’m coding and might as well be sharing some of what I’m working on while I do it. In that sense, here goes another small bit of code that I’ll be adding to jsSimple on github....
View ArticleKinect for Windows SDK
I read the other day that we released a new version of the Kinect for Windows SDK that is supported by Windows 8. With as busy as I’ve been working on IE10, I’ve been a bit of a slacker when it comes...
View ArticleFiddler Script for Accept-Language Testing
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything so it’s only fitting that I post about doing something fairly trivial. I say it’s trivial because Fiddler makes my job so gosh-darn easy! I often...
View Article2017 – The Year of Motivation
In 1993, I wrote out my first business plan for a college class. I called my idea “TeleCom Television”. I drew out plans for things that didn’t exist yet: Netflix-style movies and television on demand,...
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