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Steven is a 22 year-old front-end engineer working for yahoo! on the mail team in sunnyvale, california. He has a strong passion for javascript and usability and is currently interested in the growing html5 spec and css3. His interests also include anything sports related, vocal trance, and food.-
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iOSDevCamp 2011 Experience
About two weeks go I attended iOSDevCamp. This is a gathering for people to develop for iOS over 48 hours, and present their projects on the last day of the event. The team I put together consisted of @ngavini and … Continue reading
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DotCloud: Deploying a NodeJS/MongoDB App
pre{ padding: 0.8em; background-color: #111; font-size: 12px !important; color: #EEE; overflow: auto; } I spent most of the night moving my backend code off of EC2 to DotCloud. I thought I would give DotCloud a shot since I received a … Continue reading
Hacking on Node
Update: There might be some downtime with the service because my hosting provider keeps killing the nodejs process. I’m looking into other solutions. Wow it has been 2 months since I posted here. I’ve been really busy at work with … Continue reading
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FBGrab: A Facebook Graph API Wrapper
Tonight, on GitHub, I put up a small JavaScript wrapper I’ve been using to query data from Facebook’s Graph API. You can check it out here: FBGrab One main goal was to make the project’s code easier to read. Instead … Continue reading
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Kaskade at The Warfield
I was pumped to get tickets to see Kaskade in San Francisco on October 1st. I’ve always been a fan of his music but never had the chance to see him live. I hope that he includes alot of his … Continue reading
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Life in California
It’s been about two weeks since I’ve started living in the real world. The lifestyle here is alot different than what I’m used to back in Waterloo. I’ve learned to live independently and to be more responsible. I was able … Continue reading
Implementing Twitter’s xAuth on webOS
Twitter’s statuses/update API method requires authentication. To do this from a webOS device we need some sort of browserless token exchange to get the access tokens for a user. Twitter has progressed from Basic Authentication, to oAuth, to now xAuth … Continue reading
CSS3 Transitions – Flip effect for HTML elements on webOS
The number one feature request for one of my applications, Get Answers (Y! Answers), was the ability to view the source of a user’s answer. The problem was I was running out of screen real estate space and didn’t know … Continue reading
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