Nick Sergeant

Front-end engineer at Engine Yard.

Also created Snipt.

Wufoo is hot. Seriously.

Let's face it, building HTML forms and the processing behind them sucks. Alot. In fact, it sucks so much, that one group decided they'd build a product to help alleviate some of the pains of form building. And, well frankly, it rocks. It's Wufoo, and I have got to stop typing 'Wafoo'.

Generally speaking, Wufoo nails the administration of creating, managing and tracking basic to complex web-based ...

Yahoo! Pipes to the rescue. The JSONator: XML / RSS / ATOM to HTML with no server-side proxy.

We at GateHouse Media have lots of bloggers. We also have lots of newspapers. Naturally, we like to drive traffic in full-duplex. Unfortunately, because we have so many data 'sources' and 'destinations' always changing, it often becomes difficult for us to keep up with the massive amount of new blogs on a daily basis. We sought out to find a more dynamic process by which we can transport 'teases' of ...

Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host.

So we at GateHouse Media are quickly pushing developers within the organization to learn and master Drupal for many of our smaller, one-off projects. While chatting with Brandon Belew a few minutes ago, it became apparent that manually downloading and installing Drupal and many contributed modules can be quite cumbersome. After reading the Pro Drupal Development book, and becoming a recent Subversion junkie, I've learned to do all of ...

My switch to Mac… a developer’s perspective on Mac OS X.

So my intentions for this blog post are not to gloat about how 'uber cool' Mac's OS X is, or why everyone on PC should switch. We've seen far too many people do just that, so instead, I'll focus on my thoughts over the past couple months, during which I've completely migrated from Windows XP to OS X.

Whenever you search for 'reasons to switch to ...