Some Interview Help

Here are some good interview resources that I’ve found over time. Felt it would be useful to friends who are going in for their first full-time technical interview. Great Hacker News Thread with tons of resources Steve Yegge’s Get that job at Google Common algorithm questions asked during an interview Front end Engineering Interview Questions […]

iPhone 4S

Am I disappointed by Apple’s release today? Yes, but I think it was inevitable. We were expecting 2 new phones, one with a brand new design and one that was super cheap. I’m not surprised that it wasn’t doable. I’m still getting an iPhone 4S though, since I’m still using an iPhone 2G (That’s right, […]

To Steve

Wow, it’s been a weird few days. The week started with iPhone 5 anticipation and ended with the passing of one of the greatest innovators that the world has seen. I’ve read a lot of tributes to him, but felt I needed to write one of my own.

Snappier YUI3 Scrollview

YUI3 Scrollview is great but sometimes, it’s not “nativey” enough for me. I fooled around a lot with the config parameters and finally found one that I think works well (especially on iOS). Try this config object to make your YUI3 Scrollview instance feel a little snappier. var scrollView = new Y.ScrollView({ srcNode: ‘#resultList’, height: […]

Making an iOS-Style Popover with YUI3

One of the things I worked on this summer during my internship with the YUI team was building the Panel widget that’s shipping with YUI3.4.0. I like the whole “windowing” space, because I think it’s an area where the web can do a lot better. Modal overlays look gorgeous in iOS and there’s no reason […]

Good software

Was in the car going to lunch today and was having a conversation with Matt Sweeney regarding web application development, and tools that we use to solve some problems. I think we were talking about testing frameworks and code coverage tools. Anyway, he said something that made a lot of sense (everything he says makes […]

Introducing Crictainment

Update: I’ve been working on transferring this into a native iPad app. See the newer post here I want to introduce an app that I worked on this term for Yahoo!’s Hackathon. It’s called Crictainment and it’s a mobile web app that curates media related to cricket (you know, the sport). Screenshots Open Crictainment in […]