Cameron Spear

This is the first article in a series about Docker and Docker tooling with the aim to give a foundation of developing with Docker. This is a quick guide on how to get

I've been using Docker a lot lately. And I absolutely love it. I have tons to share, and I want to start blogging again (he says every week for a year without doing

I'm actually quite happy with Amazon, but there's one thing that really bothers me: They say they guarantee their Prime shipments[1] to be delivered by a particular date, but what do they

The site may only look slightly different, but I've completely refactored the backend for the blog to use Ghost as npm module. As part of this, I wrapped the site in a custom

In a long and (hopefully) interesting series of changes coming to my site (a lot technical, but many things will be visual, too), I have made the switch to use https everywhere and

I've been giving a lot of thought lately to how I don't particularly like how most PHP frameworks/tools/ORMs handle migrations and how I think we, as a community, can do better.

I set out with a goal of writing at least twice per month for a full year (and hopefully to continue that pace beyond that year, but at least for one year!). I

"Hey, what's your policy on using semicolons in JavaScript?" "Never. You don't need'em. Well, for loops. They're required there. "And null loops such as: while (something);. But you probably

Vagrant is a tool that is all about distributing a development Virtual Machine (VM) that all the devs on a project can easily set up and so all devs can be working in

Terrible name, I know. But I've been digging this pattern for succinctly and simultaneously getting data from the server and putting it on the $scope. I present the Server Grab Pattern: // inside a

Angular has this concept in directives called $parsers and $formatters. It's mechanism to be able to format data from model to view so that it's presented in a more human-friendly way to the

Angular 1.3 is just around the corner and with it comes ngMessages. In a lot of ways, it is good and brings a lot to the table in bringing an alternative way

It's been a busy, busy week. Mavrx launched not one, but two ecommerce websites this week. It wasn't planned that way, but just sorta happened. Launching sites—especially ones like ecommerce sites—is

Craft is an awesome CMS that if you haven't heard of, you should. It's built on the Yii framework (which I haven't really used beyond dabbling with Craft, but I've heard good things)

wiredep is a neat little Node package that does one pretty awesome thing: it automatically wires up your Bower components to your HTML/(S)CSS based on dependencies (i.e. it automatically includes

I'm a big fan of the Mac package management tool called Homebrew. But I noticed one little quirk about how it installs MySQL, and I thought I'd blog about to so I can

I've been using Gulp a lot lately and loving it's approach (streams (which I'm stilling wrapping my head around) and the fact that it's "just code," as compared to Grunt's big

JSONP, which stands for "JSON with Padding" (and JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation), is a way to get data from another domain that bypasses CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) rules.

Gulp JS is a build system/task runner geared towards front end web development, and is an up and coming alternative to the popular Grunt JS system. One of the several things that

I wanted to quickly outline how I approach actually coding a responsive design, specifically how I handle breakpoints. You may want to also check out my post on how I visually approach/think

I may have cheated a bit this week. The contents of this article just about mirror the README from this plugin's repo. I wanted to share it nonetheless, and I can't think of

I've been noticing a trend lately involving Mobile First Design—which is a way to approach Responsive Web Design in a way that focuses more on Mobile (as compared to Desktop), or at

This article has nothing groundbreaking. It is geared towards developers just getting into HTML/CSS and need help getting started with responsive design implementation. You've seen this cool, "Responsive Web Design"

In an effort to be hip and trendy and to add to a long line of things I've done to try and get me to blog more, I have converted my site to

I recently switched to Airmail for a better overall mail experience (this is a story for another day, but in summation: still a bit young, but I've found better Gmail integration, and nice