Last week I wrote a rather lengthy post lamenting the fact that finding talented front end developers is rather challenging. This led to some nice comments and emails about the topic and more than one suggestion that I not just whine about the state of things without suggesting a remedy; specifically, that I post instructions [...]

So, I’ve been trying to hire another JavaScript developer at Cloudera for a while now and the effort has proved to be rather daunting. Finding really good JavaScript developers who know their stuff is hard! If anything, it’s driven a very simple point home to me: it is a good time to be a JavaScript [...]

A few years ago I wrote a post after visiting the Ajax Experience about Programming to Patterns. The JSConf team was nice enough to bring me out to DC to give a talk, which you can watch below, and you can get the slides in PDF or Keynote format here.

I know, it’s been too long. What can I say? I’ve been busy. Really, really busy. A few weeks ago Cloudera announced our latest release of our Hadoop Distribution and the open sourcing of numerous projects that are part of that distribution. If you’re reading my blog because you care about JavaScript and stuff, this won’t [...]