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Cabooodle a community for creatives

Nate Smith — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:48:12 +0000

Cabooodle is a cool new site for creative types. Graphic and web designers will find the site helpful. Users can upload designs and get feedback on their work.

Junkie Tip: Asynchronous Google Analytics

Nate Smith — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:30:37 +0000

Here is a way to make your Google Analytics asynchronous (non blocking). Make sure you change XXXXX-X to your sites ID. This example comes from the great HTML5Boilerplate. Which if you aren’t using, you should be.

Junkie Tips: Disable Right Click Menu

Nate Smith — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:00:27 +0000

Although this is not recommended from a usability standpoint, sometimes occasions call for the need to disable the browsers right click menu. Here’s a nice snippet to accomplish that:

Breaking Down a YUI3 Widget

Nate Smith — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:00:29 +0000

YUI3 has these great things called widgets. For you jQuery guys, a widget is sorta like a plugin. Widget driven development is nice because it allows you to modularize your code, based on certain element of your site. You might for instance have a search results widget or an advanced search widget. Today I’m going [...]

Junkie Tip: Check If An Element Exists

Nate Smith — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:00:10 +0000

A good way to see if the element you are looking for exists (with jQuery).

A Closer Look at jQuery’s delegate Method

Nate Smith — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:46 +0000

jQuery has several ways to attach an event to an element, and sometimes which one to use is not so obvious. In this article I am going to be focusing on .delegate() and some of the benefits of using it. There are two primary times when delegate comes in handy. The first scenario is when [...]

Create a Simple Twitter Widget with YUI 3 and YQL

Nate Smith — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:00:04 +0000

I have been working a lot with YUI3 at my day job lately. One of the coolest new things about YUI 3 is YQL. YQL has a ton of features, but the short version is that it standardize different api’s into one nice and easy to use format. Today I thought I would do a [...]

Junkie Tips: Using Protocol Relative URLs

Nate Smith — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:03:52 +0000

If you’ve ever created a site that need https, then you have probably ran into this issue. In IE, you get a warning about some of the content not being secure. This warning is caused because you are serving some of your media, like images and CSS from a non https domain. A really quick [...]

Tasty Canned Unicorn Meat Giveaway

Nate Smith — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:11:53 +0000

Jobety is giving away 3 delicious cans of unicorn meat. I bet your mouth is watering now! Jobety, which is still in development, is a job search engine built for web designers and developers. The site is scheduled to launch in early April 2011. All you have to do to enter is go to their [...]

Portrait Photography: Turn up the Bass with Headphones

Jared Thompson — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:54:06 +0000

This is a great inspirational and colorful showcase of photography from photographers on DeviantART, the very best in photos which use headphones as a strong focal point in the subject.