Brandon’s Blog


Thoughts and random musings from my adventures in the web industry.

I Won a Joke Contest

Soooo, I won a joke contest. Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks put out a request for original jokes relating to development, and I’m one of the winners. Here’s the winning joke:

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Jekyll for Speed

This site is my first experiment with Jekyll, a templating language that compiles to static HTML. Why? The technology intrigued me for one reason: speed. Any compiled page is going to be faster than a non-compiled language like PHP (what my previous site was built in).

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The Biggest Blunders I've Seen in Tech Interviews

I’ve been interviewing developers for seven years. I’ve seen some great candidates, and I’ve seen some horrible ones. Here are some of the worst mistakes I’ve seen — hopefully you can avoid them.

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I interview web developers. Here's how to impress me.

I have seven years of interviewing experience with web developers. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and everything in-between. Here’s some of what I’ve learned to look for when interviewing web developers.

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What I Learned Reverse-Spamming Aggressive Subscription Popups

Have you ever landed a site, looking for the answer to a burning question, only to have the screen darken and a pop-up appear, covering the content you want to read and asking you to give them your personal information so they can send you updates? They’re everywhere, so I’m going to assume you have. How many of you just love those pop-ups? How many of you say, “Oh man! I was just wondering how I could stay up-to-date with this website I only discovered three seconds ago!”?

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