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I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in Portland. All of my professional life I've worked with computers online. I'm a polyglot programmer and like using the right tools for the job. In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my young family and when I get chance, sticking opponents in Halo 4. You can find me in most places @chalkers.
May 29, 2014 in Learn
Starting out in the professional development arena is pretty daunting. I’m self taught and I don’t have a degree. Broaching my first full time position was pretty scary. What would the interviewer think? Am I ready? The truth is I…
March 11, 2014 in Learn
Even if you’ve been a front-end developer for years and have done a fair amount of JavaScript programming throughout your career, there may be a few things you’ve missed out on from those delivery pressures piled on you in your…
January 29, 2014 in Learn
John Resig released jQuery on August 26th, 2006 and changed the front-end development landscape forever. jQuery quickly arose to be the go to JavaScript framework. A number of other libraries came out around the same time such as MooTools and…
January 16, 2014 in Learn
Unobtrusive JavaScript is a best practice methodology for attaching JavaScript to the front-end of a website. It’s an ideal to strive toward and something we should bear in mind whenever we’re adding JavaScript to a site. It is the separation…
May 30, 2013 in Learn
From start to finish, this quick tip with Andrew Chalkley will take you through an example using jQuery’s Smooth Scrolling on a FAQ page.
May 21, 2013 in Learn
A vanity URL is a search engine optimized (SEO) URL. Instead of having a meaningless URL like http://storeofthefuture.com/products/2015 wouldn’t http://storeofthefuture.com/products/hoverboard be better and more meaningful? It’s fairly straightforward to make URLs nicer in Rails. I’ll walk you through the process….
May 2, 2013 in Learn
jQuery, a framework written in JavaScript, offers a simple way to add behavior to websites using the same CSS selectors web developers are familiar with. In other words, you can write less, and do more! Treehouse jQuery teacher Andrew will…
February 13, 2013 in Learn
Opera adopting WebKit is one of the best pieces of news I’ve heard in a while. WebKit has been an exceptional HTML rendering engine, and as a web professional it’s been a delight to work with. But is it all…
January 31, 2013 in Learn
CoffeeScript has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years due to its adoption by the Node.js and Rails communities. Let’s take a look why it’s become the go-to language when people are wanting to write JavaScript in their…
January 16, 2013 in Learn
What is Sass? Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Sass, and was created by Hampton Catlin. It’s a way to simplify your CSS workflow, making development and maintenance tasks easier. For instance, have you ever had to do a find-and-replace…
December 4, 2012 in Learn
The term AJAX describes a methodology of loading data dynamically on a page without loading a new page. The browser makes a request that’s in the background, then a success or error callback is triggered when the request completes. The…
November 16, 2012 in Learn
jQuery is a JavaScript framework that makes it simple to add behavior to websites cross-browser using the same CSS selectors web developers are familiar with. This allows you to write less and do more First, visit http://www.jquery.com and download the…