JSON’s Coding Adventures

3 Ways to Reduce JS Page Load Times

Everyone dislikes waiting for pages to load, but it can be hard figuring out ways to improve load…

To Degrade or Enhance…A CSS story

When building a website that is trying to be compatible with older browsers, you are often faced with a choice. Do you gracefully degrade features or progressively enhance them?

Enhancing

A fruity way to remember Javascript’s not defined and undefined

Enjoying Closure

Closure is something that certainly confused me when I started, but I want to make it easier and hopefully more practical for other people. The most basic version is allowing an inner function access to variables outside of its scope.

let runner = (a)=> {
  console.log(a)…

Surviving the Reactor: Retrospective

It is weird how time has flown by in the five months since I have finished Hack Reactor. This…

Please Preserve Iron Router & Blaze

Having just completed my first Iron to FlowRouter conversion, I figured I would share my opinion on the two frameworks for Meteor. Having used FlowRouter with React, I was expecting a similarly great experience when I converted my data. Blaze Layout, in my opinion…

Scout-IO Beta

The final three weeks of coding we create a thesis project. When applying for HR, I had assumed that this would be a big solo project…

Spartecipes Post-Mortem

As soon as we finished Greenfield it was time to start Legacy. Legacy had the same four-day time constraint, but we…

Pillager Post-Mortem

Project

As a senior at HR, you complete three major projects. Greenfield, Legacy, and Thesis. For Greenfield, you are given four days to create something from nothing. While on the surface this sounds great, it also creates problems because you have little idea…