A friend and co-worker of mine (one of the best and brightest I’ve worked with) recently left our company to go work for Microsoft. Having gone through the Microsoft interview process myself (hilariously unprepared, to the enjoyment of my interviewer), I wondered what he had done to get ready for the process. He recommended one book - Cracking the Coding Interview - which he said had been recommended to him as the bible for preparation.

In my previous post about derby, I talked a bit about how to create a model in derby and one rule you need to follow when creating models (the first two path segments should be an object).

EDIT NOTE: This no longer needs to be done outside of Modernizr. This was added to the Modernizr package about a month ago. Link to issue

Been playing around with Derby in my spare time. The idea behind the platform is smart - using node and express, you write one set of code, and that code automatically syncs data between browsers, servers, and a database.

I’ve just started using node.js with express.js on both Windows (with iisnode) and Ubuntu.

I’m a fan of Twitter Bootstrap, the simple and flexible CSS, HTML, and JavaScript user interface framework.

Still working on those jQuery buttons. Trying to update old ASP.Net Webforms using jQuery, Knockout, and Amplify.

While converting ASP.NET Webforms to be more clienty using HTML 5, Knockout, and jQuery, I came across a problem.

My jQuery bug was already documented. :(

I love to find bugs in good software! Came across a little jQuery UI bug today. It’s for one browser, but it always excited to be able to create an easy-to-replicate bug. The bug is small - it deals with the buttonset() method.