Brian Landau, Web Developer

Benchmarking Javascript Templating Libraries


over 2 years ago by Brian Landau, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Because of Connect-a-Sketch’s heavy use of Javascript, I’m always looking for new ways to improve JS performance. This is, of course, important for...

Deploying the git way


over 2 years ago by Brian Landau, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Let’s start with this: Git is mind-blowingly amazing and simple. We’ll get back to this later. Moving on though, a while back I was combing through...

jMapping 2 - Google Maps v3 API support


over 1 year ago by Brian Landau, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
jMapping has been long overdue for an update. Google announced a beta of version 3 of their Maps API in May of last year, and then made it the official...

Paperclip Custom Interpolations


over 1 year ago by Brian Landau, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
As web developers something we often have to implement is handling file uploads. With Rails there are a number of plugins and gems for helping with this...