In this episode: David and Todd welcome Dojo and JavaScript legend Dylan Schiemann and TypeScript and Dojo 2 superhero Nick Nisi. We cover the early days of Dojo, the road to 2.0, and what's in Dojo 2.0 and beyond. Enjoy!
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it? At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook. Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control...
Background animations are an awesome touch when used correctly. In the past, I used MooTools to animate a background position. Luckily these days CSS animations are widely supported enough to rely on them to take over JavaScript-based animation tasks. The following simple CSS snippet animates...
Another one of my popular, early blog posts has been AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2. Looking back now, the code is atrocious and very inflexible. I've taken some time to update the post to be more reliable, clean, and speedy. The...
