David Walsh on the Faceoff Show Podcast
I have the honor of being on Mark Sanborn and Jade Robbin's awesome podcast: The Faceoff Show. The guys grilled me about my blog, the MooTools JavaScript framework, and a variety of other projects. It was great fun and I recommend checking out their website and past episodes.
If you can stomach hearing me talk about myself, don't miss the podcast!
![How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam]()
I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database...
![CSS Gradients]()
With CSS border-radius, I showed you how CSS can bridge the gap between design and development by adding rounded corners to elements. CSS gradients are another step in that direction. Now that CSS gradients are supported in Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome...
![Create a Trailing Mouse Cursor Effect Using MooTools]()
Remember the old days of DHTML and effects that were an achievement to create but had absolutely no value? Well, a trailing mouse cursor script is sorta like that. And I'm sorta the type of guy that creates effects just because I can.
![Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript]()
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...
Interview starts from minute 40 :)
Nice job man, inspiring me to actually get my blog going :-)
Ha. I would never thought that you sound that way. Good interview though! The podcast as a whole was pretty great. Google voice — sign me up!
Great interview, good to hear how you got to where you are (so far).
Hey David, great interview. So you’re now “officially” a mac convert then?