Send any questions you have about food, or programming in PHP, MYSQL, DHTML to tmiskin@gmail.com and I will blog it. And I mean any question.
I know most of the stuff I am going to talk about is available in the other popular javascript libraries, but I also know the philosophy and method behind jQuery is great and that the documentation is superb.
First of all, jQuery has great documentation at jQuery.com and also visualjquery.com. For the most part I [...]
With the rise of Ruby on Rails, the combination of Prototype and Scriptaculous (yes I know I forgot those stupid periods) has become very popular. I downloaded the libraries to use on my php sites and there was just something about them that didn’t fit well with me. They also seemed really bloated. I searched [...]
I occasionally watch Saturday Night Live, and one skit that is often shown is an ultra modern family whose house is designed all in white with crazy “ergonomic” furniture as well as other things. The last time I watched it I realized just how similiar their design is to Apple’s. Now don’t get me wrong, [...]
There was a class I took in college called “Software Development”. In it I worked with a group of four other students on a project we eventually wrote in PHP. One of the students was an especially good programmer, and I once asked him about his background and what he was doing [...]
On our website we are using and will continue to use a library by a programmer from Germany named Walter Zorn. His javascript libraries are awesome. Specifically they are cross browser javascript drag and drop and tooltip libraries. The drag and drop library has some especially cool features, and with modifications could [...]
Our management team at FundingUniverse.com had a good discussion today about measuring our performance. During the conversation I had a great way to go about the nearly impossible job of measuring a programmer’s performance. Before I get to the meat of it, there are a couple things I need to point out about [...]