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Rob Dodson

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Rob Dodson's posts on front-end development, accessibility, software tools, AI, and personal knowledge management.

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  • How To Write a Command Line Ruby Gem #Ruby #Programming #DevTools

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    Jun 14, 2012

  • Writing a Command Line Tool in Ruby #Ruby #CLI #Programming

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    Jun 13, 2012

  • Let's Talk SMACSS #WebDev #CSS #FrontEnd

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    Jun 10, 2012

  • CSS Semantics: Best Practices #CSS #WebDev #BestPractices

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    Jun 9, 2012

  • Building a Countdown Timer with Socket.io pt. 3 #WebDev #RealTime #JavaScript

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    Jun 8, 2012

  • Building a Countdown Timer with Socket.io pt. 2 #WebDev #Realtime #Programming

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    Jun 6, 2012

  • Building a Countdown Timer with Socket.io #WebDev #Realtime #JavaScript

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    Jun 5, 2012

  • Make Your Own jQuery Deferreds and Promises #JavaScript #WebDev #Programming

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    Jun 4, 2012

  • How to use EJS in Express #WebDev #JavaScript #NodeJS

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    May 31, 2012

  • Using jQuery Deferred to Load an Underscore Template #JavaScript #WebDev #Programming

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    May 30, 2012

  • Testing AMD Backbone Modules #Testing #JavaScript #FrontEnd

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    May 29, 2012

  • Mocking Requests with Mocha, Chai and Sinon #JavaScript #Testing #WebDev

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    May 28, 2012

  • Getting started with Mocha and Chai #Testing #JavaScript #DevTools

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    May 27, 2012

  • Backbone Events: Framework Communication #JavaScript #WebDev #Programming

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    May 25, 2012

  • Backbone Events: Adding Views to the DOM #WebDev #JavaScript #Frontend

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    May 24, 2012

  • How do you switch between views in Backbone #WebDev #JavaScript #Coding

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    May 23, 2012

  • Exploring the Backbone Router and History API #WebDev #JavaScript #Frontend

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    May 21, 2012

  • Some More Backbone.js Basics #JavaScript #WebDev #Programming

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    May 20, 2012

  • My First Chain #WebDevelopment #Programming #PersonalBlog

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    May 20, 2012

  • Backbone Boilerplate: Playing with RequireJS #JavaScript #WebDev #OpenSource

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    May 18, 2012

  • Getting Familiar with Backbone Boilerplate #WebDevelopment #JavaScript #FrontEnd

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    May 17, 2012

  • Hacking the PATH variable in Sublime Text #DevTools #Programming #SublimeText

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    May 15, 2012

  • Pangrams in Ruby #Ruby #Programming #Code

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    May 10, 2012

  • Building a Simple Scraper with Nokogiri in Ruby #Ruby #WebScraping #Programming

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    May 6, 2012

  • D3 Basics: The Linear Scale #DataViz #D3js #Frontend

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    May 4, 2012

  • D3 Basics: An Introduction To Scales #DataViz #D3js #Frontend

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    May 3, 2012

  • D3.js and Octopress #WebDev #DataViz #JavaScript

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    May 2, 2012

  • Ruby Objects and Dot Syntax #Programming #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment

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    May 1, 2012

  • Playing with Ruby Dates #Ruby #Programming #Software

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    Apr 28, 2012

  • A Basic RVM Tutorial for Rails 3 #Ruby #Rails #DevTools

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    Sep 23, 2011

  • Syntax Error: Unexpected tIDENTIFIER in Rails 3 #RubyOnRails #Programming #WebDevelopment

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    Sep 21, 2011

  • NoMethodError in Rails 3 #RubyOnRails #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 20, 2011
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