Ken Rimple

Chariot’s Philly Tech Week Events – April 2014

Attend one of our Philly Tech Week events and learn from us. Details are available here for these events: AngularJS Hackathon – April 8, 2014 – (sold out) – Learn how to write applications in the popular Javascript MVC framework. Javascript Build Tools Workshop – April 10, 2014 – Learn about how to build, analyze, … Read More

DevNews Programming Note – Schedule Update

I’ve made a decision to move the Developer News to a bi-weekly podcast. Though the decision was a hard one, we are finding it hard to do a show every week, and sometimes we have to scramble for enough time to prep appropriately. I think moving to a bi-weekly slot will help us provide some … Read More

DevNews 82 – We discuss Dashing dashboards, our favorite Vagrant, ECMAScript 6 (look, ma, CLASSES) and of course we rant…

You miss a week, you get, well, more articles. See what the DevNews team has come up with this week – we talk about the unveiling of the BitCoin Founder (maybe?), Mt. Gox a bit, software patents (and Ken brings up his old trope – Unlocking the Sky IS a good book!), the new Vagrant and Vagrant remote client, how Cell Phone Unlocking WOULD have been great if the lobbyists could have stopped tweaking it, and more.

DevNews is away for a week…

The DevNews is away this week on assignment.  Well, not really, but we had our Chariot Day internal conference on Saturday, and Ken is away on travel. We’ll be back next week. Here’s a nice waterfall picture for your enjoyment…  (Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina):  

JavaScript's Modern Tools – Grunt – Ant for the Browser?

In our prior JavaScript build tools posts, we already discussed bower and npm, two tools that help you download and install dependencies. But what about tools to build your application, run tests, distribute minified versions and run quality checks? Enter Grunt.