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Short Notice- I’m Presenting at the Boston JavaScript Meetup This Thursday, January 28, 2010
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…
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Some Photos From WordCamp Boston Posted to Flickr
Nothing groundbreaking. Just some atmosphere shots. The show was a lot of fun and it was great meeting everyone.
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HTML5 + WordPress Resource Links From my WordCamp Boston Presentation
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…
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Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask
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…
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Recent Reading (JavaScript Library CDNs, User-Agent Strings, Hacks, Hacks and Hacks)
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? Interesting reading. Here’s the salient bit: Or, more simply: If we use Google’s JavaScript Library CDN, we are asking the majority of our website visitors (who don’t have jQuery already cached) to take a 1/3 of a second penalty (the time to connection to Google’s CDN) to potentially save…