jQuery/Javascript

2021-02-23

I Am a Recovered “Else” Addict

Even if you never touch a Laravel installation, I highly recommend a subscription to Laracasts, the video series by Jeffrey Waye. It is filled with tons of videos that are not specifically about Laravel and everything to do with coding well. I return to it often. The one that has stuck with me and you read more >> . . .
2021-01-19

Creating Skip Navigation Links

In Ensure Web Pages are Accessible, I discuss how every page I publish is built ground up with accessibility elements in mind. The WAI/WCAG requirement for the ability to skip navigation links is often overlooked in designing web pages. This post covers how I implemented skip navigation links on this site and (mostly) follows the read more >> . . .
Happy Halloween! Don't drive nails in your head.
2020-12-25

Down the Rabbit Hole

We’ve all been there. Working with a legacy code base that had overgrown with time, no documentation, thousands of lines of code and you have one simple task, find where a value is set and change it. As you dig through volumes of code, winding your way through the logic and returns that lead you read more >> . . .