Hey, it’s been a while since I laid my hands on my blog. I’ve been too busy with work. I guess that’s a good thing. Yes I’m still alive, haha!
I was planning on adding new stuff here but I never got around it due to deadlines at work, but I’ll eventually get to it.
I’ve been spending much of my time coding server-side, so I figured I’ll drop my Mootools training for now and focus on cURL. When I do start messing with that, I’ll make sure to post my progress here.
September 27th, 2009
Chuck
I have recently opened yet another section for my website, named “Canvas“. This is basically my testing area for my Mootools experiments.
If you’ve seen what I have so far, you might’ve guessed what I am aiming for. That’s right, I’m simulating a window-based workspace. For now the content is static but I’ll eventually fill it up with dynamic content once I am comfortable with AJAX.
That makes 3 major sub-areas of my website,
- My blog – you’re currently reading this
- TheDirtLab – a repository of my recent scripts and experiments
- Canvas – my window-system experiment
I might even probably open up a section for multimedia, but I don’t see it anytime soon, lol.
I had my own little experiences wrestling with JavaScript early into my webdevelopment days, but I never really went beyond simple DOM manipulation. JavaScript has always been overwhelming for me especially because I’d have to write different versions of the code as well as workarounds to ensure compatibility with most browsers… and I didn’t like rewriting stuff when I had to consider yet another browser.
Now, a few years later, here I am again trying to get my feet wet with JS but at least there are several frameworks readily available to guide me through it, and take care of my problems (a pity they can’t help with personal problems, heh). I’m trying to choose from among the popular JS frameworks – Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery and Mootools. Based on my limited research, many devs prefer Mootools over the others, so I am thinking of starting with that.
So let me just formally state this before I begin…
Mootools, I choose you!