Category Archives: Development

  • Front-End Developer Interview Questions – Revised

    Mar 9 2013

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    Over a year ago I posted up a list of good front-end related job interview questions amassed by some of my peers and I. Since creating that post, and the subsequent Github repo, the questions have been translated into 10 different languages, forked 370 times, starred 1,760 times and viewed by tens of thousands. The [...]

  • Live Editing CSS in Presentations

    Oct 29 2012

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    I’ve been doing a number of technical talks lately that involve a lot of code. It’s often hard to get across a coding concept when you’re only showing text on the screen. As of recently, I’ve come up with a good way to show my CSS example snippets update live, without the need for JavaScript. [...]

  • Embeddable Github repos with Repo.js

    Jun 26 2012

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    So, it’s my Birthday (woot). If you didn’t know, now you know. Birthdays always involve presents. So I thought I’d give a present to all of you. For the past 3 or 4 months I’ve worked on and off on a embeddable Github repo plugin. I’ve finally got it to a place I like and [...]

  • Get Flickr Photos from URLs with jQuery

    Jun 6 2012

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    OKAY! I promise, this is the last flickr related post (Flickr Video Plugin, Flickr Gallery Plugin. I really should just write an all out complete flickr plugin for all your photo, video and gallery needs o_O. Maybe. One day. For now, I’ve delved back in and created the last “Get Flickr X from URL”. And, [...]

  • Get Flickr Videos from URLs with jQuery

    Jun 6 2012

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    I liked the little flickr snippet I wrote for embedding galleries from urls so much that I decided to write another flickr centric plugin for grabbing videos from urls. This is one of those features that hasn’t got that much traction but it is pretty neat. Both of these plugin are pretty good for generating [...]

  • Get Flickr Galleries from URLs with jQuery

    Jun 6 2012

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    I find that I sometimes want to embed a set of images that someone hasn’t created a gallery for. You can actually see a slide show of them (example: jQuery Bowling Awesomeness!) but there isn’t a way to embed/share that view.. until now. I’ve created a quick little plugin that grabs the set id and [...]

  • Creative Animation Using CSS clip and rotate

    Jun 5 2012

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    When it comes to animations, as a programmer, you get to be a little creative. Just over a year ago I was working on a project where I needed a progress bar to be displayed on load. I wanted to have something like an wheel animation but that slowly filled up. I decided that I [...]

  • Type out Text

    Jun 4 2012

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    I’ve decided to start posting semi-daily code snippets. I’ve got a number of posts that touch in this very area and I need to get them published (so I’m hoping this will help spur them on into the light of day). After watching some of the E3 action today, I noticed a lot of the [...]

  • Front-end Job Interview Questions

    Feb 9 2012

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    A while ago, a group of very intelligent and experienced Front-end Developers got together and created a list of great Front-end focused job interview questions. This group consisted of @bentruyman,@ajpiano, @paul_irish, @SlexAxton, @boazsender, @miketaylr, @iansym, @vladikoff and @gf3. Since it’s creation, I’ve expanded to this list and happen to use it to help friends prepare [...]

  • Quick Tip: Get Gravatar Images from Emails with JavaScript

    Dec 6 2011

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    A quick video tutorial on how to get Gravatar images, from emails, with JavaScript. We get some nice help from Chris Coyier’s (http://css-tricks.com/ & http://digwp.com/) MD5 Library. Final Code Example