About Me

I make stories from science

My specialty is rendering complex information in real time and creating intuitive interaction between back and front end web architectures.

I love clean, simple design, powerful web frameworks and inspiring tales.

My Toolkit

AngularJS
Backbone
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
NodeJS
PHP
Rails

Posts

  • Converting a field in Drupal
    Mar 10, 2014

    If you haven’t ever checked out Drupal’s relational database, you’re in for a good scare. You might assume that each node would be a row in a table and when you visit a page, the node is retrieved and rendered from that single row. Well, actually, Drupal keeps data from every field on that node in a separate table. If you care to check out the tables in MySQL, you’ll see ones called field_data_field_body and field_revision_field_body. The entries in those tables each have a node id reference, field value, field language and some other information you probably don’t care about. Since any “body” field requires the exact same information regardless of which node it appears in, Drupal stores all body content in this one table. Pretty cool right?

  • Weakening Your Maps - an experiment
    Feb 10, 2014

    So I was checking out the new data structures layed out in EcmaScript 6 today and found the WeakMap. My mind skipped to the limited coding I’ve done in Objective C and the whole non-atomic vs atomic properties thingy – which was which again?

  • Sneaking a JavaScript App into Drupal
    Jan 5, 2014

    When you think of Drupal modules, you probably think of ‘hooks’, ‘form API’, etc. But what if you want to build a front end Drupal plugin or app? Drupal’s at least four steps ahead of you!

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