http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/ My name is Andrew and I am a self-taught web development hobbyist from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Web Development en-us Fri, 1 May 2009 23:15:00 EST http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/04/include.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/ aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Fri, 1 May 2009 21:18:00 EST In my previous post, I pasted a gist link to a script I wrote for JavaScript to dynamically include JavaScript files on the fly, from the script code itself. I have since created a repository on GitHub for the project. You can find documentation, suggest additions, and we can talk about working collaboratively on the project if you're interested. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/04/include.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/04/include.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:55:00 EST I've been working on a simple module loader lately because I want something more flexible than JSModule, and allows me to write modules that are more portable as well. As a result, I've cooked up this module loader that you can use as well. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/04/classical-oop-in-javascript.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/04/classical-oop-in-javascript.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST Prototypal inheritance is a confusing subject for programmers who are used to the Classical approach to creating objects in other programming languages, like Java and C++. In addition, most other programming languages used on the web, like PHP and Python, also use Classical OOP. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/2009/01/things-launches-tomorrow.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2009/01/things-launches-tomorrow.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:15:00 EST Things has been in testing since December 2007. I've been using the beta version since May 2007, and it quickly became one of my core applications, and one of the most important in my day. No more jotting things (hehe) down on a pad of paper only to have to dredge through the piles of notes I take, trying to find it later. I'm not a particularly organized person, so having software that does all the organizational work for me is a must. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/12/now-with-more-wufoo.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/12/now-with-more-wufoo.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:55:00 EST I've been working on a lot of projects at work and not a single one of them has seen the light of day. However, I've decided to take a shortcut on the Service Form that I've spent some time working with and instead use Wufoo, an HTML Form generator. I've been fascinated with just how versatile and easy to use Wufoo is. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/10/macrabbit-espresso.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/10/macrabbit-espresso.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:58:00 EST Belgian Macintosh software developers MacRabbit are working on a new web development application called Espresso. It is going to occupy roughly the same space as Panic's Coda, which is highly praised for its one-window web development workflow. Coda may finally have some serious competition on the grounds it paved. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/styled-links-with-only-css.php http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/styled-links-with-only-css.php aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:56:00 EST A very common, but neat CSS trick is styling outbound links with an icon next to them. On this very site, you will see that every single link that links to a page outside of this site has an arrow icon next to it to indicate that you are leaving my site. This method, while unsupported in some older, non-compliant browsers, is a much more elegant solution than looping through every anchor object on the page using a JavaScript function. In theory, it actually works much the same as JavaScript, although requiring much less code. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/tyranny-of-the-majority.html http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/tyranny-of-the-majority.html aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:36:00 EST I'm beginning to see a trend that has begun to hit home. People not aware of web standards have seen the progress of Firefox and assumed it to be the rightful heir to Internet Explorer's throne. Internet Explorer is a king gone mad with power and Firefox is the noble vigilante destined to take its place. Is that not just trading one for another? http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/scroll-bars-and-the-horizontal-shift.html http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/scroll-bars-and-the-horizontal-shift.html aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EST Even though they're ugly and we have no control over them, scroll bars are going to be around for a long time. Although I don't care too much for the look of them, a bigger annoyance is the horizontal shift that occurs when going from a page that isn't taller than the window height to a page that is. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/javascript-browser-detection.html http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/javascript-browser-detection.html aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST More often than not, JavaScript user-agent detection is a necessary evil that I resort to, despite the damage it does to my conscience. But there is something I fail to understand: developers who believe that JavaScript browser sniffing is web-dev taboo. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/the-art-and-frustration-of-styling-tables.html http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~aknoyes/articles/2008/08/the-art-and-frustration-of-styling-tables.html aknoyes@umd.umich.edu (Andrew Noyes) Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EST Styling tables is often one of the most frustrating and mind-bending CSS exercises I know of for the simple fact that Tables, along with Forms, is one of the biggest points of contention among browsers.