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woogychuck

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About woogychuck

AKA Ian Muir - Senior Web Dev at Piehead

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3729442

    This is pretty fantastic, I now need to find a way to sneak some of those animated gifs past our design team.

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    Comment #3729438

    Change the theme id to 5 :)

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    Comment #3729358

    I really don't see how this would have a major negative impact on speed. If anything, it will allow CSS files to be smaller reducing the amount of data being downloaded to the clie…

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    Comment #3729348

    I agree that the name is confusing. They really aren't variables.

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    Comment #3505318

    Obviously there is a belief that mobile technology is going to grow. The numbers today say are that Flash is 96% of users and HTML5 is 74%. If people didn't believe that the mobile…

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    Comment #2558780

    They're both implementations of the MVC pattern, but short of that there seem to be very few similarities between them. Admittedly, I've only built one project in RoR, but the fram…

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    Comment #2558479

    There are definitely 2 distinct cultures of developers using the MS Web Stack. Webforms (what most people typically think of when they thing of .NET) is an attempt to get desktop d…

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    Comment #2558454

    This is very true. Microsoft has not done a good job reaching out to younger developers, which probably hurts them far more than they realize. While I like working with .NET now, I…

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    Comment #2558430

    Very true, I actually made a post on my personal blog about that a year or so ago.

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    Comment #2558375

    Hey all, I'm the original author and I saw this popup, so I figured I post a quick comment. A lot of people have pointed out that I didn't really include and example of a start-up …

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    Comment #2558333

    Sorry about that. It was a bit passive aggressive.

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    Comment #2558262

    Hey Bad_User (if that is your real name), Just to back up what I wrote in the article. I've worked with 2 start-ups. Both had a major feature release every 4-6 months with minor re…

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    Comment #2558151

    Hey Hysterix, I'm the author of the post. First off, I've been doing web development for about 8 years and I've been using both PHP and .NET for most of that time. Based on your cl…

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    Comment #2558094

    That's not really true. The providers in .NET are similar to the convention over config philosophy present in RoR. IIS and ASP.NET provide a lot of features in what they consider t…