You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
So imagine you’ve got this image of two cats complete with a nice drop shadow. One half of the image has a white background, while the other half has no background (indicated by the standard Photoshop checkerboard background pattern).
You want to display these cats programmatically on your Web site in response to some user activity. [...]
So let’s say you’re using SpiderMonkey (the JavaScript engine from Mozilla) to build a Web application server that naturally uses JavaScript as the server-side language. Naturally, you want to support XML, since you want to be taken seriously and of course, you don’t want to write your own XML parser, because libxml2 is really good. [...]
We’re hiring in the Front End Engineering team over at the online Apple store. If you’re a kick ass CSS wrangler or JavaScript guru, we’d like to talk to you.
But if you want to work at Apple, your portfolio better friggin’ work in Safari.
Things have been very quiet here lately. I know I originally said I’d be posting frequently about this cool application I’ve been developing, but something else came up… we’ve decided to move to Seattle.
I’ve been meaning to write recently, however life has been conspiring to keep me mute. There’s still on-going problems with The Bean and now work has heated up and I’ve been recruited to design our new customer-facing Web site as well as provide some UI design ideas for an entirely new product. Then there’s the [...]