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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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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:
It should be fun. I hope to see you there.
Nothing groundbreaking. Just some atmosphere shots. The show was a lot of fun and it was great meeting everyone.
Continue reading “Some Photos From WordCamp Boston Posted to Flickr”
Owing to the contrast on the A/V system, my last slide was illegible, so here are all the links that folks couldn’t see.
The presentation itself:
HTML5 + WordPress
And the resource links:
The working group
http://www.whatwg.org/
Mark Pilgrim’s HTML5 book
Dive into HTML5
The Modernizr library
Modernizr
The outliner
http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/
The post talking about Kubrick
I’m Messing Around With an HTML5 Version of the Default WordPress Theme
My other sites:
DrunkenFist.com (art portfolio)
@robreact
I’ll have video of the presentation up shortly (I hope!)
Yes, I’m still helping out with screening candidates. I haven’t yet interviewed someone to replace me, but there’s still a week to go.
Anyway, we’ve had a couple of technical questions that candidates universally failed to answer. Why share them here? For starters I just want to know if we’re crazy to expect people to know these. I also like the idea of a kind of “easter egg” for candidates. If someone does enough research to find my blog and read this post, they’ve shown me something, even if it’s not the answer to one of the questions posed below.
The two that have surprisingly turned into stumpers (at least for the last five or six folks I’ve interviewed)
hasLayout?body text to .625em?And the bonus question that I want to ask, but don’t, because it’s kind of goofy to say out loud
Answers after the jump.
Continue reading “Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask”