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Getting Creepy With Google Analytics

It’s no secret that everything you do on the Internet can be tracked, watched, and analyzed. The amount of information that we can gather is… well… creepy… to say the least. I wouldn’t worry too much though, as most people really don’t care who you are and are not recording that. Using the Google Analytics Event Tracking API, we can get nice statistics for everything from browser window size, to outbound links, to downloads, all the way to what people are copying off of your pages.

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baseJS: A Mobile JavaScript Framework

baseJS logo This past fall I was tasked with creating a few iPhone-specific web applications. After doing a lot of research, I found a few issues with the popular JavaScript libraries. The availability of -webkit-transform and -webkit-animation removed any need for an animation library. Second, since the Query Selectors API was available, the need for a complex javascript selectors engine was basically pointless1. And last, every library that I came across, even after minifying, was far too large for the iPhone to cache (24KB limit).

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Status Update: New Job, Projects

Where the crap have I been? Well, that's actually a simple answer: busy. But don't worry, I definitely haven't been completely neglecting the interwebs—in fact, I think that I have so much in the works that it's going to scare you all quite soon.

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The Fastest Way to Code a Loop in Javascript

Tipped off by Ajaxian, Gregory Reimer at Sun did some extensive testing on the fastest way to code a loop in Javascript.

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Archiving Awesome Box

Today is a sad day; I‘ve decided to archive the beloved Awesome Box. Why, you may ask? The short answer: support and upkeep. It‘s difficult to continue to support a plugin and respond to problems people are have using it. The long answer…

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