Series: jQuery Basics, Selectors and Events, Step Two.
I find most of the reason I turned to jQuery was the easy setup of events and flexibility of selecting out information I needed. I loved the short-handed alternative to blah.something.thisandthat.getElementById(“painful”). I especially liked being able to set up click events and document ready triggers without having to write long listener functions.
Series: jQuery Basics, Intro to jQuery, Step One.
jQuery is one of the best JavaScript frameworks out there. Its lightweight, easy to use, and very powerful. You’ll find yourself with no shortage of plugins. Anything you want to do with JavaScript, but don’t want to spend hours writing code, you’ll be able to knock out with jQuery in no time.
It seems like the past year has been more about how to make it work with old browsers, than how to innovate and do cool things with the new browsers. Sure, a lot of people are still using IE7 and 8. They’re either stuck on Windows XP with no way to upgrade to 9, or they’re on a corporate computer blocked by out dated IT policies that may, or may not, change. In either case, why aren’t people flocking to a new browser platform?
With the closing of Borders, my quick stream of tech books disappeared. It was the one place I could always count on to have exactly what I needed at the spur of the moment. Unfortunately, with poor foresight, and bad management, my book destination became a casualty of the digital era. That’s when I decided to turn to an eBook reader.
I never thought the day would come that I would seek sale of my Hosting company. It seems like yesterday I was setting up the first server, and taking the first order. It was a time of learning, and taking chances. I was about to embark on an extraordinary journey.
It wasn’t that long ago that when you wanted to put a video on your website, you count on Flash for a nice video player. It was the near-standard for a long time. Even YouTube adopted (and still uses) Flash for its video player. But then along came Apple, and everything changed.
Its true. The harder you work, the more they pile on, the more that is expect, the harder it is to meet a deadline. But could all of this have been avoided?
Deadlines in today’s society are very real, and very tight. Companies have become rapidly more demanding, and developers have taken on more and more. Still, the end goal is the same for all of. Finish the project on time, and properly.
I found myself in the middle of a dilemma last night. I wanted to shake up my story a bit, and make it more interesting. I wasn’t quite satisfied with the premise, and questioned the characters. I then turned my attention to the main character.
Can you really kill off the main character and keep the story intact? I wondered if maybe another one stepped in, but then that would make them the main character. I decided to do a little research. Perhaps there have been games that did this in the past.
I had a conversation with someone today about WordPress. They said “Why are you building a web site with a blogging package?” I must admit, at first it got me thinking. After I came to my senses, I explained to them how its more than a blog.
I was staring at my screen just over a year ago. I wanted to rebuild CanisHosting.com, and had drawn out several wire frames, and jotted down several page titles. I even pondered the thought of having a new logo built. Finally, I built a prototype page, and tossed the link into an IM window at a friend.
I’ve taken a bit of break from programming the last few days. I’ve done quite a bit at my day job, and I really needed to rest that part of my brain. I’ve instead taken to writing more of my story, and working on visuals of the world I’m creating. I was resorting to pen/paper type things, and also some generic notes on my iPhone notepad. I have to admit, I’m not much of an artist at all. I can visualize things, but I can’t lay them out with a pencil.
