Ben Farrell

This post is the second of five. Click here to read the first which covers why I came to Web Components in the first place. Let’s dig in. In part one, I covered WHY I wanted to write ES6 Web Components, but didn’t show any code. Let’s change this! Since Web Components are a collection …

Update: @garethwatts tells me that we were told that your app doesn’t have to be hosted on AWS, only that it must be publicly accessible. In my opinion, this is BETTER, but still not great for just serving off local host in your dev environment! Thanks Gareth! Before you read this article, I gotta warn …

I’ve had some pretty awesome co-workers in my time, so no doubt I keep in touch (or at least stalk them a little on Facebook and be glad when they are doing well). One of those folks is a very awesome lady named Polly Searles. To be honest, I don’t recall working with her THAT …

This past year and a half have been a little busy for me. I’ve moved to the Bay Area, moved again to Oakland, started a new job, and had a steady stream of speaking gigs at conferences. It’s now March 2015 and my blogging has dropped off quite a bit. Back when I was doing …

Hey everyone! I just got back from HTML5DevConf in San Francisco where I gave my talk “Atomic Desktop Power with Node.js”. I had also given the same talk on the east coast last month at NCDevCon. As promised, I want to share some links with you. Like I said in the talk, I made my …

The last thing the internet needs is another jerk writing about Google Glass – yet here we are. I’ve been pining  to try Glass for awhile. I was, of course, jealous when my friend Adrian got Glass. Yet I wasn’t willing to shell out the $1500 on a product that was still baking AND travel from …

Yup, I’m pretty exhausted now because this weekend I attended Hackfit San Francisco. What is it? Well – it’s a hackathon that focuses on fitness and health tech, but ALSO promises group exercise, reasonable bedtimes, and healthy meals. I’d never been to a proper hackathon before, mostly because in my early career as a developer …

Ooooog.  I’ve been noodling around with this thing for about an hour.  I think I’m at a good stopping point because I’m a little motion sick.  It’s weird because I think I’m only getting motion sick when I take OFF the goggles.  Maybe I just can’t adapt to real-life anymore. So, for those that know …