For all those that attended mu talk this morning, here is a link to my slide deck in PDF format! http://clintandrewhall.com/wordcampkc-2011.pdf I’ll be posting a follow up tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks for attending!!
31
Aug
Node Knockout 2010: In Response to John Resig
I had to respond to some of John Resig’s tweets regarding Node Knockout 2010.
15
Jul
Create Your Own Google Chrome “App”
I was reading LifeHacker and came across a post regarding how to enable Google Apps in Chrome. Curious, I dug into the extensions and noticed… well, they’re pretty simple. So I decided to create my own for Facebook
22
Oct
Contact Form Experiment
Yesterday, I saw this tweet from Smashing Magazine: I took a look at the form, and I must say I was impressed too. Unfortunately, I was using TweetDeck on my iPhone… as a result, I didn’t see the contact form at all because the background image didn’t load very fast. That prompted me to post [...]
04
Oct
New Window, No In-source Event
I was prompted by this Twitter post to cross-post an old blog entry of mine. Having JavaScript events in-source binds you to whatever JavaScript method (and it’s signature) you’ve specified, not to mention breaking the tenets of Progressive Enhancement. When wishing to launch an anchor’s href into a new window while using a STRICT doctype, [...]
24
Mar
Creating Elements in JavaScript, (any good?)
I’ve been playing around with a couple of ideas for JavaScript methods, thought I’d get some feedback. The following link is a code snippet in PasteBin that shows the methods and a quick test: http://pastebin.com/f7b68ab19 Basically, the two I wrote and that I’m evaluating are: Create Element This method caches a created element instance in [...]
02
Mar
Run Safari 3 and Safari 4 beta on the same Mac
I couldn’t find a blog post or comprehensive tutorial anywhere, but after a great deal of trial and error, I’ve managed to get Safari 3 and Safari 4 beta to run on my Macbook Pro at the same time. Most insisted you have to download WebKit… but you don’t. It’s much easier than that, once you [...]
27
Jan
It’s BACK!
After a great deal of effort, blog is back… I’ve lost a number of posts, though, as well as my custom WordPress skin. I’ve also lost all of my non-database-stored work, (e.g. post images, whitepapers, etc). I’ll keep you posted as to when I’m back in business. What a pain in the ass.
20
Jan
They let ANYONE drive these days…
This… guy… gave me a double-take as he was waiting at the Winstead’s on the Plaza. Thankfully I had my camera and could stop laughing long enough to take several pictures:
19
Jan
An Open Letter to a Car Thief
Someone broke into my car… a really ignorant person, who stole things you can’t even pawn.