January 18, 2012 | development, jquery | No Comments
Wow, what a great few weeks I’ve had. Things started off when on New Year’s Day I posted my Scrollorama plugin to Hacker News and a couple other places. To my great surprise, it shot up to #1 on HN and stayed on the front page for pretty much the whole day. Then it started [...]
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
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 [...]