After an outpouring of interest, in last week’s post about JavaScript Jobs, I’ve gone about and set up a free site dedicated to JavaScript Jobs, which can be found here: http://jobs.jsninja.com/ It’s pretty basic, for now. I used the Open Source jobberBase software (which uses jQuery!) so it was pretty easy. All jobs go through […]
Comment · Posted: April 20th, 2008
» JavaScript Ninja JavaScript Jobs I’ve set up a job board, which can be found here: JavaScript Ninja JavaScript Jobs. Just a quick post, in a follow-up to this one on JavaScript Jobs: I still have a ton of JavaScript jobs sent my way (all the way from simple contract work up to full-blown expert-level […]
Comment · Posted: April 18th, 2008
My summer/fall speaking schedule is starting to solidify – with some major intensity occurring around May. Let me know if you’re going to be at, or around, any of these events – I’d love to meet up. May 17-18 – BarCamp – Boston Don’t have an exact topic chosen yet, possibly something on jQuery. May […]
Comment · Posted: April 16th, 2008
The feature set for Firefox 3 has long been frozen, and committed – it’s well on its way to becoming a polished browser, at this point. It’s time to start looking ahead, specifically, at the feature set of JavaScript in the next version of the browser. Traditionally JavaScript 1.X releases (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and now […]
Comment · Posted: April 16th, 2008
Dromaeo is the name that I’ve given to the JavaScript performance test suite that I’ve been working on over the past couple months. I was hoping to hold off on this release for another week or two, while I finished up some final details, but since it’s been discovered, and about to hit the Digg […]
Comment · Posted: April 11th, 2008
I just had an epic phone call. I leave my cell phone number on my about me page since I tend to believe in the innate goodness of humans. It has yet to be proven true, thus far, but I’m willing to play the long game. It started with an email from one ‘Dennis Baer’, […]
Comment · Posted: April 10th, 2008
I’ve got another crazy-weird setTimeout/setInterval behavior that you may not know about. However, unlike my previous discovery, this one may actually be useful. Observe the following, seemingly innocuous, code: In particular pay attention to the use of the first argument within the callback function. Running this code in any browser, but a Mozilla based one, […]
Comment · Posted: April 10th, 2008
A crude JavaScript implementation of the first stage of Super Mario Brothers has been making the rounds today. It’s roughly playable but misses many key aspects (no mushrooms, no flag, no one-ups, etc.). However, that’s not what’s particularly interesting about the game. Perhaps the most interesting part of the application is not within the game […]
Comment · Posted: April 9th, 2008
