JavaScript

No. 680 / HTML5 Boilerplate musings

I haven’t been blog­ging here or any­where else for a bit, so you wouldn’t know that I’m a big fan of the HTML5 Boil­er­plate unless you were some­how fused to my mon­i­tor, or stand­ing behind me between the hours of 10 PM and… oh… 2 AM while I admin­is­ter beat­ings to pix­els in my…
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No. 382 / Google Woes

Since imple­ment­ing the changes to my Google Ana­lyt­ics instal­la­tion as detailed in my last post, I’ve noticed a sharp decrease in page views: none recorded. I put the default code back on the page, but am curi­ous as to why it’s not work­ing when I wid­getize it (Google Ads worked fine when I used…
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No. 361 / Abstracting Analytics, Part 2

Since the relaunch of the site, I’ve been work­ing with cer­tain ele­ments of the JavaScript to improve per­for­mance and keep things clean. In the past, I talked about cre­at­ing a brand new JavaScript library that I’d use here; and I started to do write it, look­ing to jQuery, Pro­to­type, and DOMAs­sis­tant for inspi­ra­tion.…
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No. 251 / Rethinking My Plugin Stash

No offense to the devel­op­ers behind these plu­g­ins. Great work. In fact, if asked, I’d rec­om­mend all of these plu­g­ins… I’m just not going to be using them any­more because they don’t meet my cur­rent needs. I think I’m going to have to cre­ate one plu­gin to rule them all (well,…
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No. 241 / Abstracting Analytics

In re-thinking the way I approach the JavaScript on my site, I’m def­i­nitely lean­ing towards cre­at­ing an ana­lyt­ics wid­get. I want to keep as much JavaScript as pos­si­ble out of my HTML. So, in lieu of the code that cur­rently sites at the bot­tom of any given page, I think I should do some­thing…
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