March 11, 2012 | apps, development, javascript, web | No Comments
I knew a lot of the stuff that was talked about in the Killer App Design session by Jonathon Morgan, but there was still plenty of valuable food for thought and ideas in there. Also, he was an engaging, comfortable speaker with a good sense of humor, which made for a nice way to start [...]
January 1, 2012 | development, javascript, jquery | 5 Comments »
Over my holiday/new-baby-time-off break, I took some time to work on a couple new jQuery plugins that I’ve been thinking about. I’m a fan of the various cool scrolly sites out there like this and this. I also dig slideshow presentation plugins like deck.js and reveal.js With that in mind, I’ve created Scrollorama, the jQuery [...]
November 17, 2011 | development, javascript, jquery | No Comments
I’ve just posted a new project to Github. This was a quick easy one. It’s a jQuery plugin for making a simple responsive image gallery that scales to fit the size of its container. The project page is at johnpolacek.github.com/ResponsiveThumbnailGallery
July 1, 2011 | development, javascript, web | No Comments
Last week, I posted sizeit.js, a javascript utility for responsive web design, to github. It is a simple script that detects screen width and loads external css. Works kinda like media queries. Why not just use media queries? This article outlines some of the problems with them. The reason I created sizeit was for building [...]
June 17, 2011 | apps, development, javascript, jquery | No Comments
The dominant scripting language of the web is JavaScript. This should not be a controversial statement. Yet, among some Flash Devs, it might be. I still enjoy ActionScript, but getting more into the front end HTML/CSS/JS stack has been a lot of fun. Like other developers diving into JavaScript, my first instinct was to do [...]