Brian Tomlin

I recently had a hankering to dust off my Google Maps API hat and throw together a mashup with their v3 API. After two days of coding late into the night (during my off hours) I am proud to present the initial version of this mashup application. This app combines recent earthquake data from the [...]

While he may have lost the fight with employees at Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim, CA but he sure took the pepper spray like a champ. Remember kids, when dad gets drunk and belligerent at a theme park be sure to break out your smartphones and record away!

  In the age of HTML5, CSS3, advanced JavaScript libraries, and modern browsers the difference between web applications and compiled mobile applications is shrinking at a rapid rate. In his blog, Pete LePage highlights the opportunity for web apps to bridge the UI gaps that their mobile counterparts fill and in some cases can even [...]

The guys and gals over at HTML5 Boilerplate have just released version 3.0 of their HTML5 template. What was already a solid boilerplate design has been trimmed down to be even leaner and meaner. I’m still reviewing the details but so far I like what I see. Not familiar with HTML5? This boilerplate template is an excellent [...]

The site redesign has finally here. My personal website had languished for quite some time and was being slowly strangled by GoDaddy’s atrocious hosting servers. I used this as an opportunity to scrap the old site and move to a much faster and flexible web host. (WebFaction) After playing around with various blog and CMS platforms I [...]