Whalesalad

Around the time my girlfriend Lani and I started going out, she introduced me to what is now my favorite place to eat in all of Hawaii. I find it so delicious and satisfying that I'm pretty sure I gave myself mercury poisoning not too long ago. Why? The restaurant is called Ahi & Vegetable, and their specialty is.. Ahi! Continue Reading »

PHEW! It's been a while since I've written a blog post, so please forgive me in advance for however horrible this might be to read. I finally bit the bullet and finished my Django-powered frankenstein monster site. It's pretty rudimentary at the moment, lacking commenting support and any formal way to browse the archives of posts. Not that any of that matters right now, I only have a handful of posts! Continue Reading »

Two large projects I was recently involved with have required a great deal of front-end browser behavior and as a result i've become quite proficient with Javascript in the past few months. As the apps we use move further away from the desktop and onto the web, little nuggets like this will become more common. I've dabbled with a variety of frameworks and tend favor jQuery, but these can all be considered "framework independent" good ol' fashioned Javascript functions that anyone can use to enhance their user experience. Continue Reading »