Rob Janssen (RobIII)

Microsoft ASP.NET SignalR

Yes, you read that right, Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR. It’s been a while since I last blogged as we’re super busy trying to make SignalR rock solid and 1.0 quality for you all to use. I’ve also given my first talk ever at Monkeyspace and then BUILD - both on SignalR. SignalR 1.

Universal Analytics: The Next Generation of Google Analytics

Google Analytics is introducing a number of new technologies, collectively called Universal Analytics, that will create a better way for businesses to measure their digital world.

The Internet is not a black box. Look inside.

Change something, hit refresh in the browser. "Why is that cached? What's going on?" Change something else, hit refresh in the browser. "What's the deal?"

Exploring the relationship between JavaScript and the modern HTML DOM

You might also like: JavaScript Enlightenment or jQuery Enlightenment An O'Reilly edited version (printed, epub, mobi, pdf) of this book is now avaliable from O'Reilly or Amazon Warning! This is the free online version of the DOM Enlightenment book in its pre-edited/draft form.

An open-source distributed database built with love.

RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.

Windows 8, Step 0 - Turn on continuous backups via File History

So you've installed Windows 8. I'm going to do a small series of posts called "Windows 8, Step 0" with tips on what to be sure to do after you've installed Windows. Here's an important TODO for you. Do it NOW. Do it all your machines, especially Non Technical Family Member's machine.

Wasting Money on Cats

Did you get this little box in the mail this week? The little cat can be used to scan barcodes which appear in magazines like, um, Wired, for example.

Why Is Scrum So Hard?

Jens Østergaard, a fully qualified Certified Scrum Master Trainer, gives an introduction to Scrum and talks about why is Scrum so hard. This talk was part of...

Dashing

Here's a sample dashboard with 2 widgets. With a name of sample.erb, it becomes accessible at /sample. Each widget is represented by a div element needing data-id and data-view attributes. The wrapping <li>tags are used for layout.

Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner

In the past year, many CS professors and education pundits have written about how MOOCs are scaling up CS education to hundreds of thousands of students. I'm going to take a different approach here and tell the story of how I spent nine months teaching computer programming to one student.