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The past few months I’ve worked with a few startups and it’s made me realize that it’s super easy to forget very basic, but crucial things when developing web software. The following is a big brain dump of everything I could think of. Source code management (git, svn, mercurial) Branches in scm for development and [...]

If you’re working with the new window.postMessage functionality in HTML5 and get this JavaScript error: An invalid or illegal string was specified” code: “12 Make sure you specify a full URL in window.postMessage like so: parent.postMessage(‘hi there!’, ‘http://www.ryandoherty.net’); If you use a URL like: ‘ryandoherty.net’ you’ll get a very obtuse and unintelligible error message. I [...]

I’ve wanted to write this for a while but mainly pride stopped me. I think now I can handle admitting my failures. So here’s a big one! Note: the following opinions are mine alone and do not in any way reflect my former employer Mozilla. A few of you may remember my project ‘Cesium’ that [...]