Posts by Aaron Gustafson 

Last night, I had a great conversation with Jeff Croft about the pros and cons of requiring a Facebook account for login. It's a trend that seems to be on the rise and I, personally, don't think it's a good long term strategy.

One of my books went musical. And on my birthday no less.

I've been cautioning folks against over-reliance on JavaScript for the better part of a decade. Apparently Gawker didn't get the memo.

Yesterday saw the launch of the Chrome App Store and, along with it, an app we created called the wikiHow Survival Kit.

Late last week, the nominees for the 2010 .net Awards were announced and I was amazed to find myself nominated for not one, but two awards.

While working on the client-side caching mechanism in eCSStender, I realized the dangers of localStorage.clear() and worked to come up with a solution.

As any competent JavaScript knows, it’s not cool to litter the global namespace with variables, functions, and the like. Occasionally, however, even closures won't help you trap a given variable.

ExpressionEngine’s mechanism for embedding one template in another can be used to speed up your site by munging your CSS and JavaScript files.

Git svn a great tool, but it's not without its limitations. One such limitation is its inability to translate Git submodules into svn:externals. Thankfully, Git offers an alternative that is comparable and plays nicely with Subversion.