Abrahm Coffman

The modern browser is now the most intriguing development platform and runtime environment (personal opinion), especially when you consider that many mobile browsers ship with broad support for HTML5 and related technologies.  As browsers and javascript have matured, so have the libraries available to developers for building client side web applications.  Here’s an attempt at organizing [...]

I recently had a need to create a form where somebody entered their birthday and decided it would be a good idea to explore various ways of solving this.  I essentially had the following requirements: Make the data entry as easy as possible Do as many validations as I could on the client side Use [...]

In the summer of 2010 I was a co-lecturer for a Web Architecture course offered through the School of Information at UC Berkeley. The description of the course was as follows: This course focuses on understanding the Web as an information system, and how to use it for information management for personal and shared information. [...]