I'm going to California to chill from Tuesday, May 12th to Thursday, May 14th. In honor of my time on the West Coast, I'll do my best to listen to 2Pac in California. It's the least I can do to please my high school music CD jacket.
I'll be posting Friday when I get back. I've got some great MooTools and PHP stuff ready to drop! Stay tuned!
MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...
One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API. window.postMessage allows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains. Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let's take a look at how window.postMessage works and how you...
A week back I saw a great effect created by CSSKarma: input labels being animated horizontally. The idea is everything positive: elegant, practical, unobtrusive, and requires very little jQuery code. Luckily the effect doesn't require much MooTools code either! The HTML A...
What part are you coming to? I’m over near San Francisco. Let’s do coffee, jk – that’d be weird.
I work in Compton. Come through lol.