Words, code, and information security in Portland, Oregon
This is the website of Erik L. Arneson. I am a freelance writer and software developer in Portland, Oregon.
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Blog Posts
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Please Use Version Control
Stack Overflow released their 2015 Developer Survey this week, and it has some interesting results. There are plenty of articles being written about their findings, so I’m only going to focus on one of them: version control.
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Link Rodeo: Go Package Management and Boring Technology
Here are a number of interesting topics for you to think about this week.
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Create a Document From Twitter with TweetBook
I just released TweetBook, a web application to transform a Twitter stream into a simple document that can easily be turned into a photo album.
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Don't Modify the Clipboard with JavaScript
Recently, I was reading an article about a newly published book that I’m interested in. However, the article didn’t include a link to the book, so I copied the title by highlighting it with the mouse and hitting ‘Ctrl-C’, and opened a new browser tab to do a search. However, upon pasting, I saw the book title along with an annoying addition: “To read more, visit our website at [redacted].”
This sort of website behavior is not okay.
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Pansophie Online Color Test
Pansophie Personality and Color is focused on mapping personalities to colors. Alexandra Hall wanted an online testing platform with flexible questions, testing mechanisms, and report generation. I built a full-featured web application to meet Pansophie PC’s requirements. This was one of my early Zend Framework projects, but it ended up with some neat features.
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Prime Number Service on Google App Engine
As I mentioned earlier this week, I’ve decided to learn the Go programming language. I’ve also been very interested in Google App Engine, which lets you deploy applications to the cloud from a development sandbox. It’s like magic for web and mobile applications!
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Random Link Rodeo
I’ve been working on a few projects, but nothing I can share publicly. However, I’ve also been out in the world of the Portland tech community, which has been excellent. If you haven’t heard of Calagator yet, go check it out.
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How to Enable XPath in Internet Explorer
Yesterday, I shared a little bit about using a virtual machine to test frontend code under Internet Explorer (IE). My goal was to use Wicked Good XPath to add the proper XPath features to IE so that EPUB.js would work correctly, thus making the Philalethes E-Bulletin Online Reader work on all major browsers.
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How to Test Your Frontend Against Internet Explorer Without Booting Windows
Internet Explorer (IE) has been frustrating me. I want to use stronger words than that, but it would be unprofessional.
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When to Develop Apps From Scratch
I haven’t had time to write anything interesting for the blog this week, so instead check out Sebastian Green’s article, “A transparent box: the case for developing from scratch,” which has been published over at Developer Drive.
Mr Green makes some great arguments for developing from scratch. Good software takes good planning, no matter what.
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