Cleaning House

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For both of you who actually follow this blog, you might notice some changes happening around here pretty soon. First things first, I'm going to be moving it (this blog) to either a subdomain or a subfolder and making the root of nathanhammond.com a site more focused on introducing you to me (as a developer and ...

My Amazon Instant Video Experience

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Earlier today was the first time I bought anything from Amazon Instant Video. Let me tell you about my experience. I quickly found what I was looking for and painlessly bought the episode I was on. Wonderful, and typical of my usual Amazon experiences. To make it even better it even started to play the video ...

Designing for Safety

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When I was learning how to drive one thing my dad made crystal clear to me was that my job as a driver–to increase my safety and the safety of those around me–was to be predictable. It is much simpler to plan where you are going to put yourself and your vehicle if you can guess ...

Git-ing Started With HTML5 Boilerplate

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I've probably known of the existence of HTML5 Boilerplate since Paul Irish first started working on it. I don't remember exactly what I thought of it when I was first introduced to it, but I don't recall being particularly impressed. Well last night I took another look–and I'm glad I did. At this point HTML5 Boilerplate ...

Node Defense - Most Geek-elicious!

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First, I would like to both thank and congratulate Eran Hammer-Lahav for all of his effort judging the Node Knockout. Yes, that is right, he judged every single one of the entries. Now, with his unique perspective, he decided to give out some awards of his own: The Unauthorized Node Knockout #2 Awards. I won't spoil ...