JavaScript
Web Directions North 2008
October 17, 2007, 7:44 AM | 0 Comments
Web Directions North is coming back to Vancouver, Canada for the second straight year! Last year I was fortunate enough to attend the conference and I really hope I can make it again this winter.
YUI Theater
September 22, 2007, 11:59 AM | 0 Comments
Anyone who works with advanced JavaScript on a regular basis will tell you that it’s one of the most misunderstood and under documented languages there is. Fortunately though, the resources are getting better and I just thought I’d draw attention to one of the better ones I’ve enjoyed over the past little while.
Yahoo!’s YUI library has been increasing in popularity over the past year or so, and for good reason—Yahoo! has done a lot of great work with YUI. One of the great things about YUI is that it’s probably one of the most thoroughly documented JavaScript libraries around. Personally I think that one of the things that makes a language like PHP so popular is the great documentation that the PHP developers have released alongside it. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same thing for some of the JavaScript libraries out there… which in turn make some of them a bit of a chore to work with.
Safari CSS/JavaScript Overflow Issues
June 18, 2007, 9:30 PM | 3 Comments
If you’ve seen my portfolio lately you’ll know that it’s currently undergoing some changes, but the latest project to have its URL land there is one that caused me a bit of grief in Safari. What I’ve been able to gather based on more than a few Google searches and discussions with other web professionals is that Safari seems to have a big problem when trying to adjust the overflow property of an element with JavaScript.
TinyMCE 2.0
February 7, 2006, 10:30 PM | 2 Comments
If you’ve ever gone on a hunt for a good ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) text editor to use for your web applications, you’ll probably know that there are many options out there. I’ve used several different editors, all with their own pros and cons. htmlArea, Xinha, and FCKEditor are all fairly common free or mostly free WYSIWYG editors that will get the job done without too much hassle.
Heading for the Polls!
November 28, 2005, 11:54 PM | 1 Comment
Well, I wasn’t exactly planning this, but it turned out pretty well. Canadians are headed for the election polls on January 23rd. Today, Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal minority government was finally defeated by a non-confidence motion, effectively ending his current term as PM.
Reinspire.net is also heading for the polls, but I’m talking about a completely different type of poll. I’ve been hard at work on a polling system for this website that I’m happy to unveil today. As I said, I wasn’t really planning this to coincide with the election call, but so be it.