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Creating your own JavaScript Library – part 2 – Event Handling 6 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
In Part 1 of Creating your own JavaScript library, we cover the library essentials: library design, creating a solid object constructor, and adding functions by extending the object prototype. This po...
Software Engineering principles applied to CSS 15 May 2013 | 07:29 pm
Some of my thoughts about CSS developent. Think of more? Share in the comments and I’ll add them to this page! Low Coupling The principle of low coupling suggests that distinct parts of an application...
Custom events system in JavaScript – LightEvents.js 27 Mar 2013 | 07:13 pm
Needing an event subscription and publishing system for a HTML5/canvas game I’m creating, I wrote a very light event system. Anything than can call JavaScript (link, button, etc) can raise an event: [...
Quick and reliable ad-rotator 7 Mar 2013 | 12:13 am
In the course of my work, I’ve created and refined a simple ad rotator. It is built in JavaScript, and does not rely on any library, like jQuery, to function. In my experience, it defeats ad-block, a...
asp.net – getting user confirmation before a postback 19 Feb 2013 | 09:46 am
In asp.net web applications, it is common to have dozens — if not hundreds — of user controls that perform postbacks to the server, actions initiated by a user such as a button click. Often before a s...
Creating a microformat / richsnippits resume 15 Feb 2013 | 12:17 am
What are microformats? Microformats are small patterns of HTML to represent commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviewsand tags in web pages. Microformats are the quickest & sim...
Full-adders, 32-bit adders in JavaScript 8 Feb 2013 | 11:03 am
Fascinated by a lecture as part of my CS degree pursuits (there is light at the end of the tunnel!), I decided to build some digital circuitry beginning with logic gates and ending with... Related p...
Horizontal vs. Vertical button groups 6 Feb 2013 | 11:55 am
Button groups are an important part of user interface design, but choosing their orientation can often be difficult. I’d advocate that horizontal groupings are better in most cases — consider... No r...
Interesting interview question #1 1 Feb 2013 | 04:15 am
During an interview (for a software developer position) with a major employer in the state of Utah, I was asked an interesting programming question: Create a function that, given an... No related pos...
From College Publisher to WordPress: My own daily WTF 15 Jan 2013 | 11:35 pm
Up until June 2011, The Signpost (Weber State University’s student news organization), was hosted by College Publisher – A content management system designed for university newspapers like The Signpos...
