jQuery Demystified
August 31st, 2011 § 0
Guiding slides for the hour-long presentation on ‘What is jQuery’ that I’ve been giving to backend teams.
IE Loopiness with jQuery appendTo()
September 3rd, 2009 § 1
If you’re a front-end developer heavy into JavaScript, chances are you’re used to a model of development that starts on FireFox and then branches out into other browsers once Firebug has helped with the heavy lifting. This is my model, anyway, and a standard piece of it involves saying ‘ok, that’s pretty fast, but how’s it gonna look in IE…’ The fact is that IE has a slower JS engine than its counterparts. Until today, though, I had never seen this engine truly cripple an app.
Code
August 29th, 2009 § 0
The code is the product, and it’s called ‘code’ for a reason… Not because we use it to veil messages and intentions, but because it’s only after years of diligence that that we learn to use it in ways that are transparent, interpretable, and maintainable.
The first internet revolution unfolded when we figured out how to provide things over the wire. I was working as a ‘media analyst’ at a PR research firm in 1999 when the major organizational challenge was in moving customers from a periodically-mailed software CD to a model that delivered the software and its updates in near-real-time over the web. At about the same time, I signed up for my first internet-based banking experience. This was new stuff. This was functionality from afar. We could actually go to web addresses not just for information, but to make stuff happen.