I’m a big fan of the Graded Browser Support table from the fine folks at Yahoo! It was the official foundation for our browser support policy at Cramer and I still look to it now for hints into what one of the most mass-market of all sites thinks about the browser landscape.
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Interviewing With Me? Here’s an Easter Egg. I’ll ask you this JavaScript Question During the Interview.
We’re hiring in my group.
Cool, right?
So, I’m once again interviewing. Yay me.
Since I’m no longer running a group I don’t have to worry about any of the administrative type things (“this is what the company is about,” “this is what we do,” etc.) That’s good as it just allows me to test people on technology. That’s really my favorite part of the interview process anyway. Win.
The following is a tiny snippet I’ve been using to test people’s knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals.
Why share it here? For one thing it’s kind of interesting to me since it’s a very small snippet but it can expose a lot about the way the person approaches the language. Basically, if you can get this and you’re still pretty inexperienced you’ve probably read a book, taken a class or read a blog post or article written by someone smart. That’s a bonus.
And then there’s the Easter Egg part. Meaning, I’m still going to be using this going forward with the answer sitting right out here in the open. Why?
Here’s how I see it. If a candidate:
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HTML5Boilerplate 0.95 Released. Please Break the Build Script.
The latest version of HTML5 Boilerplate was released and the build script I worked on is included as a beta feature. I’m happy to see it in the wild even though it reminds me that I’ve got a couple of outstanding enhancements I want to take care of at some point (soon? *fingers crossed*)
Anyway, check it out and definitely take the build script for a spin. Know Ant and want to help out? Want to port it to another build system (that would be awesome)? Dive in. We’re happy for the help.
Thanks to Everyone Who Came out to my CSS Talk
Look at all of the people that showed up for little old me:
Sweet.
Here are the slides. I’ll have some video soon (either of this one or of the upcoming version I’m giving at Design Camp Boston.)
Thanks to the folks from Boston PHP for the opportunity and to the guys over Bocoup for hosting.
Recent Reading (JS Natives Duke it Out, Regexp in jQuery, Performance, a New Image Format?)
Sorry, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy at work, I’ve been wringing every last bit out of summer on my bike, and I’ve spent a lot of my free time on my upcoming CSS presentation, so I haven’t been posting as much as I would like. Fall is here. Which means I should have more time for writing. That’s cool.
Anyway, to break the ice here are a few articles that have recently caught my attention.
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