Category Archives: work

Ending The ga.js Wait

Google Analytics is ubiquitous, not least of all because it’s better at what it does than most of the alternatives. Also, it doesn’t require any install or maintenance. And it’s free. What’s not to like? Frankly, not much, but if I had to nit pick, I’d note that the worst part of Google Analytics is [...]

Notes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP

Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the likes of cygwin, Visual Studio, and a zillion patches from Microsoft. The truly dispiriting thing, though, is how badly cmd.exe still sucks. I fully admit [...]

Joining Google

Starting next month, I’ll be a Googler. To my great surprise, I’ve been at SitePen two and a half years. It has been nothing short of wonderful which may explain why it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. When I look back at what we’ve accomplished it’s also surprising that we’ve been able [...]

A Lovely Box For Your Toolkit

I’m incredibly excited about the SitePen Dojo Toolbox AIR app that just launched. I’ve been using early versions for a couple of weeks now, and in that time it has earned a privileged place on my desktop. Being able to make local builds without delving to the command line is something that I’ve wanted to [...]

Kris Zyp Joins SitePen

Some time back I posted about an opening in SitePen’s R&D “group”. The responses I got back were astounding, and I couldn’t be happier that Kris Zyp is joining me to help work on things that we feel are important to the future of the open web. This is yet another high point in our [...]