Jobvite is a helpful tool that my company uses to allow candidates to apply and allows hiring managers to screen and evaluate them. However, they have the really annoying behavior of logging users out after two hours — they’re not a bank, and I have a password on my screensaver. …
My blog has been neglected because I’ve been so busy running the Women’s Javascript Study Group and doing related networking. O’Reilly wants to give us books! Women 2.0 wants to help out! And Women Who Code is going to be our parent group! This feel-good buzz around women in tech …
With Zoosk’s support, my colleague Kristin & I are starting a Women’s Javascript Study Group. I blogged about it on Zoosk’s Engineering Blog — it’s for both beginners and more experienced folk, and we’ll focus on learning vanilla JS and sharing new findings with each other.
In order to have an iOS-style toggle that scales nicely, I used a simple media query and a CSS3 widget for my company’s touch site. Here’s an adaptation of it with my own Javascript; feel free to reuse the code as you wish. The JS listens for clicks on the …
My motivation for hacking together this Javascript quiz was to be able to create an interactive version of a mental health tool called an “Automatic Thought Record”. It’s a cognitive behavioral therapy worksheet that can be useful to anyone who experiences untrue negative thoughts (which is almost everyone!); it uses …
I have now hacked together my quiz. The code is no thing of beauty, but it works — and that’s exciting. I will now set this aside and work on building my actual programming skills and coding Javascript in something that could be considered the proper way.
I started reading Eloquent Javascript, which seems like a very well-written tutorial with a lot of programming fundamentals…. but I got frustrated with putting my project on hold. I think there’s something to be said for hacking some code and getting something out, and then taking time to refactor and …
Over 10 years ago, I made my first show/hide toggler and was very proud of it… and tonight I had to remember how to do these basics. My script searches for section elements and hides all but the specified one — this will eventually be used as a way of …
I’ve decided to devote two nights a week to working on a side project. The first iteration will be very simple: a one page JS quiz/worksheet with a summary page at the end. The only problem is that I have forgotten more Javascript than I currently know, and all of …