I had the privilege to present at ConvergeSE this year. Below are the description and relevant links from the presentation.
Updating Service Worker cache version using Jekyll
I’ve been diving deep into Service Workers lately. There are a lot of great resources, and others sharing their stories and work such as Jeremy Keith and Lyza Danger Gardner have proved invaluable. One issue that has continually bothered me is the manual updating of the cache version every time I modify my site. So after a little digging, I’ve found a very simple way to update my Service Worker version number whenever I update this site.
Podcasts
It’s been quite a while since I originally listed my podcast listening lineup, and a lot has changed since then.
How to Make the Web Better
This is the first in a series prompted by a Sparkbox initiative called “The Shift”. The idea being the first Monday of each month a topic will be announced, and then on the last Friday, everyone taking part in the topic post a link to their article with the hashtag #startYourShift. This months topic: “How to Make the Web Better”.
2016 To-Do List
I’ve never been one for New-Years resolutions, but I do like to make myself a list of items I’d like to accomplish over the next year. This rarely, if ever, centers around the typical weight-loss/exercise resolutions as I prefer to focus my goals around learning and growing professionally.
My Top Five Favorite Tech Items of 2015
This week, the guys over at ATP listed off the 2015 tech they’re thankful for. Here’s my list:
Notes on HTTP/2
HTTP/2, the successor to SPDY is finally gaining traction on both browsers and web servers. For my own benefit (and hopefully yours), I’ll be documenting relevant articles and information here.
Frontend Conference Zurich
This month I had the pleasure of presenting at Frontend Conference Zurich a two-day double-track conference working to establish itself as Switzerland’s leading conference on state-of-the-art frontend and UX technologies. The conference is an excellent platform for Swiss and European researchers, developers and designers to present their projects, latest research and technologies in the fields of Web technologies, Web design and UX/HCI (Human Computer Interaction).
Using GitHub Education to Teach Web Development
This past Spring I once again taught an Into to Web Development class at the University of Notre Dame. While the class structure didn’t change too much other than updating for the various changes in web development that occured over the past 1.5 years, the way I had students turn in assignments changed quite a bit.
BDConf 2015
This month I attended my fifth Breaking Development Conference. BDConf is a boutique multi-location conference about the mobile web. It is a gathering of passionate, forward thinking web professionals looking to improve their mobile and Responsive Design skills and to interact with industry leaders in the areas of mobile design and User Experience. Below are the description and relevant links from my presentation.