Gabe Harris

Coolest Javascript Library Name

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

How can you deny ‘Dojo’ as the coolest Javascript library name? People that use it seem to love it, so I’m giving it a go. Check it out at the playground. I haven’t done a whole hell of a lot with it yet, but it’s a start, and I expect it to keep growing over the coming days/weeks.

First impressions – it feels like the jQuery a little bit, but I do miss the jQuery $ sign. I’m not used to it at all yet, it seems long-winded after writing so much jQuery. It certainly doesn’t appear to have the faithful following I’ve grown accustomed to with jQuery, but that can have its positive connotations as well. It could push me to write my own custom ‘plugins’ which in theory should lead to more power and usefulness. Plus it absolutely will push me to be a better front-end developer. I am excited to keep pressing forward with it.

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In-line style? PLEASE DON’T

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Besides the more obvious reasons for not using them (if no reasons come to mind, stop reading and go play some place on YouTube), in-line styles suck on another level. Keep reading…

• tagged: class, css, id, in-line, style, styling
• categorized: asp.net, css, development, javascript, php
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Just for fun

Friday, July 9th, 2010

I like fun things, but getting tattoos all the time is rather cost prohibitive. So I have built a little playground area, for learning and trying new stuff. Some of it is just following along through tutorials I’ve seen online, and some if it is testing out new things as I read about them. Most of it is front-end related (CSS(3), HTML(5), and JavaScript/jQuery), but there is some coding going on as well (CodeIgniter) that you won’t see. At any rate, check out the playground for some good times.

BE WARNED: if you’re using IE, you probably won’t love it so much… sorry?

• tagged: css, design, development, front-end, javascript, jQuery, playground
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