Starter Assets

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I just wanted to point folks to the small project I started on Google code- Starter Assets.

It’s based on some work I did at Cramer to standardize the development process there. The idea was to provide a standard set of files and a standard file/folder structure for people to start with whenever they were initiating a new project. I’ve expanded on it in this case to (eventually) include several doctypes (right now it’s just xHTML strict- HTML5 will follow soon) and links to popular JavaScript libraries on the Google Ajax Library CDN (just jQuery for now.)*

To use, you’d just download or SVN export the folder that corresponds to the doctype/library combination that strikes your fancy and you’re good to go.

I’ve released it in advance of a blog series I mentioned during my JavaScript presentation this past Thursday. It’s a step-by-step tutorial on how I build web sites called, “Building a Modern Web Site.”
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My Presentation From Last Night’s JavaScript Meetup

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Here’s the link I promised:

JavaScript 101: Adding Interactivity to Your Site Using the World’s Most Popular Programming Language

*A note on the title- I’m just repeating what Douglas Crockford said. To remix the quote about IBM, no JavaScript developer ever got fired for quoting Douglas Crockford**

**Don’t quote me on that

Again, I want to thank everyone that came out. It’s always fun to attend the Boston JS Meetups and presenting there is even cooler.

Video of My HTML5 + WordPress Presentation From WordCamp Boston

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And here it is:

Slides.

Just in time for me to do it all over again tonight at the Boston JavaScript Meetup. Well, not completely all over again as it’s a new presentation tonight, but it’ll still be two times at NERD this week.

My Personal View of Browser Market Share is Pretty Sweet- Firefox Rules, Chrome is Massive, IE6 is Nearly Dead

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Here are the numbers for DrunkenFist.com in the year 2009. There were 614,333 visits to that domain last year and the top browsers broke down like this:

Browser # of Visits % of Visits
Firefox 342429 55%
Internet Explorer 162977 26%
Chrome 35801 5.8%
Safari 33545 5.4%
Opera 22826 3.7%

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Short Notice- I’m Presenting at the Boston JavaScript Meetup This Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Check it out:

JavaScript 101: Using JavaScript to Add Interactivity to Your Web Site

Rob Larsen will lead an interactive session outlining the basic steps to getting started with using JavaScript using modern techniques. For the beginner it will serve as a road map to using JavaScript with confidence. For the more advanced user it will serve and a forum to discuss fundamental best practices as Rob will be soliciting feedback and discussion throughout.

It’ll be basically a step by step on getting JavaScript onto a page, in a modern, “best practices” way. Starting with attaching the script to the page using the script tag all the way through writing a function and attaching it to an element. Each step will be split into three levels of discussion:

  1. For the beginners each will simply be presented as “this is how you do it”
  2. For the intermediate user it will be “this is why we do it this way”
  3. For the advanced user it will be a question- “where does this fall apart and how can we make it better”

It should be fun. I hope to see you there.