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Keyboard navigation when carousels block your way
20 April 2017
Oh… carousels. Carousels have become a major web design trend over the last several years. They are everywhere, from home pages to slideshows to product galleries. Carousels are terrible. From a content perspective, the majority of users only see the...
4 ways teaching code made me a better developer
11 May 2016
Late last year, the good folks at General Assembly hired me to teach one of their part-time Front-End Web Development courses. I have been coding for years and, more recently, have given a few one-off guest lectures. However, I was...
Embracing the base: A little advice that developers might find surprising
23 July 2015
A few weeks ago, I spent some time interacting with candidates for a development job and peppering them with questions at a recruiting event. One candidate who had just started to learn to code finally asked me a question, which...
18 December 2014
Is one of your Backbone.js pet-peeves the fact that all of your routes have to start with a hash tag? It was mine! The other day, it finally became a problem when I had to integrate my Backbone app inside...
Adventures in IE: A story of Javascript dependencies
03 June 2014
I have never really been one for developing in IE. To be honest, I usually exclusively develop using Chrome and save my cross-browser testing for the end of the project. This is very likely a debatable practice, and I may...
23 August 2011
This is just another example of why Internet Explorer 7 (and earlier) needs to die. I have been working on a project where a group of images needs to be displayed on a page, four at a time in a...
Adding a character limit to a text area using YUI
29 July 2011
In the UI world, it is a good idea to let the users know about any constraints they have on any form fields. We all know this. There are a million ways to do this – through error messages, help...
24 May 2011
I know what you are probably thinking. You want to use YUI 3 inside YUI 2? Really? Why not just upgrade to YUI 3 altogether? The question actually came up in one of my more recent projects, with a client...
20 September 2010
Ever since I started my consulting gig, I have been learning so many new (or, rather, new to me) technologies. Most of my learning experiences have centered around Javascript libraries – namely jQuery and YUI. In light of the fact...