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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 [...]

Jobety the web design job search engine has launched

Nate Smith — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:28:04 +0000

Jobety.com, a side project I am really excited about has just launched. Jobety is unique in that it’s the first job search engine to focus solely on the web design and web development industry. Designers and programmers that are seeking a employment should also be excited about Jobety, because it allows them to see jobs [...]

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.

The Ultimate Freelance Job Board List 2010

Nate Smith — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:01:41 +0000

Ask most freelancers what the hardest part about their job is and they will tell you finding new clients. It’s a pain to do and takes up time you could be devoting to other more important things. One thing is for sure though, new jobs are what powers your freelancing business and you want to [...]