I am starting the final chapter of my book at the moment (yay!) and it is “Using Third Party JavaScript”. In the chapter I will introduce some libraries and services to use and give examples how to do that (quick Google Map, Flickr stuff, using the REST APIs of Yahoo) and I wondered what other services you like using and why? I’d be especially interested in services that provide JSON objects or even code.
Thanks for your input!
Yahoo UK are hiring one more web developer to work in the same team as me, so if you are good in JS/CSS/XHTML and live in the London area, drop me your CV and I will hand it over to the powers in charge.
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I joined two weeks ago and cannot tell much, but the amount of skill and the challenge of the job I encountered so far made me really think I did the right thing in joining the purple Y.
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As part of my last but one chapter of the book (Yay!) I came up with the idea of a dynamic image badge – much like flickr’s badge but one that loads thumbnails from a folder instead of using the flickr REST API.
I christened the solution badgr and would welcome feedback:
What it does is turn a link like:
Animalsinto a thumbnail gallery that displays the large photos lightbox style (but without the greying out of the whole page).
If you wonder about not getting any answers to emails or a lack of postings here: I am currently on a 10 day trip to California working today in the Santa Clara office and from tomorrow onwards in Sunnyvale. I am staying in San Francisco, so if anyone wants to sponsor me some bagels and coffee, I’ll be there early in the mornings and at night time. I am taking the Caltrain in the mornings, hence not much in terms of partying I guess (still on UK time in my head).
Just a quick reminder that you can drastically cut down on loop iterations by using the break and continue commands, and that there is an option to label loops to allow nested loops to stop their parents from iterating.
The Muffin Man Stuart Colville asked me earlier today how supported labels are in loops and breaks and I was confused at first as I had not heard or – more likely – forgotten about that feature.
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