Refactoring to Decouple HTML, CSS, and JS

After reading Tips for how to decouple your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I was struck by how stupid I’ve been marking up my HTML for CSS and JS events. I started rewriting my latest project using these principles and they’ve really helped create a separation of concerns. To illustrate how this has helped, I was coding up a quick administrative interface to CRUD some service model classes in my project and I started to really hate the UI/UX I chose. I decided to switch to a table since the data is more tabular in nature and I was quite please to see that none of the JavaScript functionality broke. ...

October 29, 2013 · 3 min · 490 words · Scott Brown

Goals 2013

In order to fully attain my merit badge for renaissance man, I am going to state a few goals of mine that will be started this year and may take until the end of next year to complete (mainly because I have to care for my daughter, which is a full-time job). These goals are in varying disciplines, but fulfill things that I have always wanted to learn as well as something that will help me in life (sooner or later). I don’t mind learning information that I may never use in life* but if I am going to spend money on learning I am going to ensure I get a positive ROI from it. These goals also dovetail into the new business opportunies that my company, JustPlainSimple Technologies Inc. would like to explore. In no particular order, here they are: ...

June 27, 2013 · 6 min · 1225 words · Scott Brown