Tyson Cadenhead Another year has come and gone and it is now officially 2013. I guess the Mayan Apocalypse didn’t happen after all. I’ve always been a big advocate of making goals and this year is no different. Goals help you plan out your future and enable you to break down big things into smaller pieces that … Read more
Before I left Moontoast last month, they worked with me to open-source a HTML5 canvas jQuery charting library I created for their internal analytics tool. I wrote a blog entry for their developer blog introducing jQuery ToastChart. I thought you might be interested to see it.
I’ve been using a standup desk for nearly a year now. It all started when I discovered this infographic. Up until last week, I was working at Moontoast where I had set my Ikea desk on top of four cinder blocks to make it standing level. This week, I started working at appendTo, which means that I’m finally able … Read more
I’ve recently been working on a JavaScript API that interfaces with a REST-based server-side API and handles cross-domain issues while still allowing GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods to be fired from anywhere on the web. Due to cross-domain security issues at the browser level, making POST, PUT and DELETE requests can be a lot … Read more
I’ve been working on several projects in the past year or so that have required me to write some jQuery plugins and custom JavaScript widgets and I feel like several of them could definitely be useful for other developers. I’ve set a goal this year to release at least two projects to the community, but … Read more
A few days ago I realized that I read a lot of books and articles about JavaScript and web development and that this would be a good place to share my thoughts about them both for my own reference and maybe even for helping other people out. In the interest of that revelation, I present … Read more
As a JavaScript developer, I tend to spend a lot of time getting and setting data using a server-side API. Over the past few years, I’ve encountered all sorts of APIs and I’ve formed some opinions on what makes a good API for JavaScript interaction. Here are some of my thoughts. Make the API use … Read more
Most of us can agree that spawning popups with JavaScript is usually a user experience FAIL. We’ve all been to websites that opened several popup ads. That is always something to avoid. Malicious and ad-happy sites have made it necessary for browser plugins and some browsers to block JavaScript popups altogether. But there are some … Read more
This is something that I have been trying to make up my mind on over the past year and a half at least. The question? Do JavaScript libraries need an abstraction layer? Just to clear the air a little before we jump into the discussion, if you are making a small website, this doesn’t apply. … Read more
I tend to fall in with Coldfusion programmers from time to time and while I actually really like the language and the community, the one thing that can make working with Coldfusion and JavaScript harder is how the language returns JSON. Typical JSON looks something like this: But Coldfusion encodes structs to look more like … Read more