Posts by Jon Boutelle

This post originally appeared on SlideShare's engineering blog. Pair programming has always rubbed me the wrong way. I understand why some people like it. It’s great to have collective code ownership. It’s great to have conversations about what the code should look like before the code is actually written. And it’s great to have a collaborative work environment...

This post originally appeared on SlideShare's engineering blog. Watch our HTML5 gallery here. SlideShare today announced the biggest change since we started. We are now rendering presentations and documents using HTML5 instead of Flash. This is a milestone. 5 years ago, it was impossible to build something like SlideShare or Youtube without Flash. But the web...