…I would recruit my theatre and music friends to wear it during performances. People always ask what it’s like to be onstage, backstage, what we see, how we feel. It would be amazing to live stream and/or record, letting audience-goers experience it from their favorite character’s or musician’s perspective.
12
Jul
A Necessary, Important Clarification
The following is a blog post I wrote on June 6, 2006… a little more than 6 years ago. While I was at a beer.js meetup, I got to talking about this particular post with Joe McCann. Now, here I am, posting it to my blog, as he requested. This is wisdom from the years [...]
19
Apr
Not Sorcery or Alchemy: Redefining How People See Software
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. (…) One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. [...]
07
Feb
A Vegetarian Work Week?!
Companies in Silicon Valley are well-known for their perks. In the midwest, if not the whole country, the stories are legendary: fully-stocked micro-kitchens, three square meals a day, beer flowing from the bathroom faucets… it’s enough to make any geek envious, (and curious). Once I started at Facebook, I was excited to see exactly how [...]
11
Jun
WordCamp Kansas City!
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 [...]