These are some notes-to-self from a variety of presentations I attended at the recent ForwardJS Conference. Check out the reading list at the very bottom for some homework. How your brain is conspiring against you making good software by Jenna Zeigen Humans are predictably irrational. – Dan Ariely The Problem: We may be “rational” developers, but we’re also […]
These are some notes-to-self from Kyle Simpson‘s recenct ForwardJS workshop titled: Advanced JS: Rethinking Async. The Problem: Callback Hell Limitations placed on our flow control, imposed by callback syntax. Inability to trust how your callback will be handled. Concepts: Parallel vs Async Parallel = all 30 people on the same rollercoaster car. Async = 30 people on 30 1-seater rollercoaster cars one after the
There are a ton of great solutions out there for creating equal heights columns – so many that it can get a bit daunting to choose one. Here’s a simple jQuery snippet we’ve started using when CSS alone won’t suffice. Thanks to Rob Glazebrook for the building blocks, to which we added some special functionality
jQuery Responsive Select Menu Automatically turn your standard WordPress navigation menus into responsive select / drop-down menus when the screen is below a certain width. Download Now » See Demo » GitHub Repo » jQuery Responsive Select Menu gives you a simple way to make your navigation menus responsive for mobile devices like phones and
We recently completed a project in which we needed to popup a tooltip-like box when hovering over an element. The :hover CSS pseudo-class works fine in desktop, but not so well on mobile. What ends up happening on mobile is that tapping the target element does indeed pop up the tooltip, but tapping elsewhere on
We love jQuery. A lot. And we use it a lot too. In fact, on pretty much every site we build, we utilize a common set of basic jQuery snippets that do some handy things (opening external links in a new window, adding helpful classes to list elements, labeling links based on there “href” attributes,
Here’s a handy jQuery/CSS snippet that adds special “read more” links to expand and hide your WordPress blog posts, accordion style. This is pretty useful if your blog page is spitting out a bunch of long posts, and you’d like to consolidate some space. The code is set to work with default WordPress classes and
A handy CSS/jQuery snippet to style <select> elements.