My first experience with “designing” web pages was in the early 90s. I was still in elementary school and HTML was the “big” thing; those were simpler times filled with gifs and <marquee>. Fast forward to the late 2000s…to say that web development technologies have “changed” would be an understatement. All of a sudden I [...]
First, a bit of news. Because of my prior experiences with Django, I’ve been contacted by the wonderful guys at Packt Publishing. They’ve been generous enough to offer me a first-hand preview of a new book, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward I’ll be doing a review of the book very soon, [...]
Let’s say I have some function foo that needs to be called when some HTML element is clicked: function foo(a, b) { : : : } : i = 100; j = 200; element.setAttribute(“onclick”, “foo(i, j)”); In the example above, the Javascript interperter will see the line element.setAttribute(“onclick”, “foo(i, j)”); and automatically figure out that [...]
One of the more fun courses that I’m taking this semester is CSC309: Intro to Web Programming. Although I do a lot of coding in general, I’ve actually never worked with Javascript or other web technologies. Sure, I’m using WordPress right now, but Bluehost is nice enough to have one-click installs! For our first assignment, [...]