Creating a Jekyll Blog with Bootstrap 4 and Sass - Part 1

Mar 19, 2018

I recently updated this blog to use Bootstrap 4. I decided to document the process for getting Jekyll working with Bootstrap and Sass. At the end of this post we'll have a very minimal framework built out, and in subsequent post(s) we'll add more features and pages.

Meteor Testing with Velocity and Jasmine - part 2

Dec 3, 2015

In this two part post we'll look at client integration testing with Velocity and Jasmine, with a little Jasmine server testing thrown in. In addition to creating and running tests with Velocity and Jasmine, we'll look at how to create fixture and test data; how to handle authenticating user's for our tests; and briefly cover Jasmine spies.

Meteor Testing with Velocity and Jasmine - part 1

Dec 3, 2015

In this two part post we'll look at client integration testing with Velocity and Jasmine, with a little Jasmine server testing thrown in. In addition to creating and running tests with Velocity and Jasmine, we'll look at how to create fixture and test data; how to handle authenticating user's for our tests; and briefly cover Jasmine spies.

Converting a project to a package based architecture

Sep 8, 2015

I recently viewed a great screen cast by Sacha Grief where he explains Telescope's package based architecture. In this post we convert an existing application to a package based architecture.

Paging and Sorting in Meteor - Part 2

Aug 5, 2015

It isn't the sexiest or most interesting of topics, but providing paging and sorting for tabular data is a common requirement when building out an application. In part 1 we implemented paging, in this post we'll add sorting.