Archive for May, 2008
Information Architecture Graceful Degradation Accessibility Case Studies
Posted by grandecomplex in Uncategorized on May 31, 2008
Based on the following website case studies, here are rules for planning graceful degradation into the architecture of a website: Read the rest of this entry »
What is Bad About CSS Sprites?
Posted by grandecomplex in CSS on May 27, 2008
CSS Sprites have changed the way we think about website performance efficiency, but we should not be using them on every graphic and here is why: Read the rest of this entry »
Conducting Technical Interviews for Web Developers
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on May 25, 2008
Presumably most readers of this blog will have been through a technical interview, and I’m betting that some of them have to give technical interviews as well. The purpose of this article is to go over some of the points to consider while conducting the interview, as well as suggestions for coming up with good questions to ask. Read the rest of this entry »
Inspecting Javascript with Firebug
Posted by grandecomplex in JavaScript on May 20, 2008
1. Go to http://www.alexgrande.com/breakable/ and add the link to your bookmarks.
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The Group Class in MooTools
The MooTools Group class is for grouping a collection of objects and calling a function when all of those objects have fired a particular event. For instance, you could group an array of Element objects and fire an event when all of them have been clicked. Or, you could group a collection of Ajax request objects and fire an event when all have completed. (Both of these examples are straight from the MooTools 1.2 Beta docs for Plugins/Group).
How is this useful? Well, it’s a convenience for when events Read the rest of this entry »
MooTools mouseenter and mouseleave Events For Dropdowns
One of the frustrations many coders have encountered when creating JavaScript flyout menus is the fact that onmouseover and onmouseout events fire when entering children elements. This is usually not the desired effect when creating popup, dropdown or flyout menus. Read the rest of this entry »
Recursive Functions in JavaScript
Posted by admin in JavaScript on May 14, 2008
Recursive functions are functions which conditionally call themselves. A common use for recursive functions is anywhere you need to iterate on data, where you would normally use a for() or while() loop. Read the rest of this entry »
JavaScript Challenge: Reverse a Linked List
Posted by admin in JavaScript, MooTools on May 14, 2008
This article is a follow-up on my previous post on writing a linked list class in MooTools. In that post, I offered an implementation of a singly-linked list in JavaScript and gave a challenge: To reverse a linked list in place, starting with only a reference to the head. The challenge also forbade the use of storing the data externally — that is to say, you can’t just iterate over the linked list and stuff the items in a new array, then reverse the array. Read the rest of this entry »
LinkedList Class in MooTools
Posted by admin in JavaScript, MooTools on May 13, 2008
A commonly used data structure in Java and other programming languages is the linked list (Wikipedia). It is similar to an array in that it is a way to store a collection of objects in sequence, however unlike an array you cannot access items in the collection by index. Instead, you access them through links from other items in the collection, or from the initial head or tail link (which can typically accessed with getFirst() and getLast() methods, respectively). Read the rest of this entry »
JavaScript Challenge: Dispense Change
Posted by admin in JavaScript, MooTools on May 12, 2008
This challenge is to write a function that takes an amount of change and returns a String Array with the coins to dispense. Read the rest of this entry »
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