David Walsh World Tour (Guest Blog Posts)

By David Walsh on December 10, 2013

I've been getting around lately and I wanted to share with you some blog posts that I've published on other sites!

The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face

I've been working on the MDN front-end redesign over the last four months. It was a massive undertaking for a number of reasons: it's a wiki-based community site, new features needed to be added on both the server and client sides, we needed to support a beta mode so we essentially were maintaining two sites concurrently, and the usual feedback and communication issues that come with those other factors. In this post, I provide the technical details of the MDN redesign. This is also my debut on the prestigious Mozilla Hacks blog.

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Getting Started with Stylus

Speaking of the MDN redesign and debuts, I wrote my first guest post for the Treehouse blog, detailing how to use Stylus, the CSS preprocessor I used for the new MDN. Stylus is an excellent, excellent preprocessor that doesn't get enough credit, so even if you prefer Sass or LESS, check out this post -- you may learn something! Don't forget you can start learning for free! ;)

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Readying Your Site for RTL

My experience with the MDN redesign taught me a whole lot about CSS, browser rendering, and the need for flexibility in design. Even if your sites don't require RTL support, this post is a great intro to RTL support. I promise you'll learn a few things from this post!

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An Interview with JavaScript Legend Kyle Simpson

Throughout my career as a developer and blogger, I've had the privilege of meeting or making acquaintances with many super talented software engineers. Toward the top of the list is Kyle Simpson, father of JavaScript loaders and all around JS badass. I asked him about JavaScript, HTML5, and his tips for how you can become a legend like him. Don't miss this!

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6 Tips for Creating AJAX-Heavy Websites

This blog is AJAX-heavy and I learned a lot in getting there. This post details how I made site maintenance infinitely easier with event delegation, JavaScript loaders, and a variety of other techniques. If you want to optimize your sites with XHR, check out this post!

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Whew, I've been all over the place. I hope you enjoy these posts and look forward to more!

Recent Features

By David WalshSeptember 27, 2012

5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed

When you say or read "HTML5", you half expect exotic dancers and unicorns to walk into the room to the tune of "I'm Sexy and I Know It." Can you blame us though? We watched the fundamental APIs stagnate for so long that a basic feature...

By David WalshMay 7, 2012

Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations

I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.

Incredible Demos

By David WalshOctober 29, 2012

CSS Kwicks

One of the effects that made me excited about client side and JavaScript was the Kwicks effect. Take a list of items and react to them accordingly when hovered. Simple, sweet. The effect was originally created with JavaScript but come five years later, our...

By David WalshOctober 27, 2009

Event Delegation with MooTools

Events play a huge role in JavaScript. I can't name one website I've created in the past two years that hasn't used JavaScript event handling on some level. Ask yourself: how often do I inject elements into the DOM and not add an...

Discussion

Loupax

In the title of the post the three dots seem to be a single character that causes the font to break in Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m. Replacing the character with three separate dots in the element inspector makes the font to render normally, and reverting it brakes it again.

Nothing to do with the post but I found it interesting!