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An HTML "developer" needs to know the proper formatting (syntax) and structure that the browser expects from the HTML, but that's not all. HTML alone isn't going to get you very far. A developer should know, at minimum, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Well, that's an interesting solution Egregore. I'll have to take that into consideration, thanks for the input.
Thank you CReber. I do like my current company and the people I work with. I think I'm going to let my boss know I have an offer and that I don't REALLY want to leave, and try to get a little bump in my pay anyway. My heart is telling me to stay.
Thanks fredsanford, the startup life certainly isn't for everyone, and I'll need to consider that. The hours would be considerably longer.
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hackDaily on Friday November 11, 2011 @08:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.
So, I currently work as a web developer at a medium sized development firm with a few hundred clients. They've been in business for about 10 years and have a good track record. I don't have a CS degree, and my current company pays me 31,000. A startup with DEEP, DEEP pockets has offered to pay me 45K to start as their lead front end developer. The question is, do I take the money and ditch the...
Yes, I set up an account earlier today and found it quite delightful. I set up a project and some tasks for my latest hack and so far it looks like it will be very useful. The interface is top-notch, and it encompasses a full range of uses such as bug-tracking etc...
Sublime Text 2 is a fantastic product, their updates are timely, and it's been my goto editor for months now. Thanks for the hard work guys!
It's really straight-forward for simple usage. There's no official river for mongoDB, so for now, since I've got very small documents, I just save in MongoDB, and then index an even smaller searchable document in ElasticSearch. My front-end talks to ElasticSearch through a simple node/expressjs route, which was made far simpler by this NPM module -->
https://github.com/rgrove/node-elastical
I apologize for using the term "combining" as it's slightly misleading. I actually use ElasticSearch for search functionality only. I use MongoDB for the standard DB stuff (read, update, etc...)
I've been using MongoDB for about 5 months now and can say that it is an excellent tool. I've been tinkering with building a very fast search engine for my latest app by combining MongoDB with ElasticSearch and it's been a wonderfully pain-free experience. While I certainly believe in picking the right tool for the job, I don't see myself going back to SQL anytime soon.
Our clients are typically churches and small business who like to have banners on their home pages. There's always something "featured" that they want to show off.
Very nice! There are a lot of rotator plugins out there, but yours seems very complete and robust. I will definitely be using this in future projects since our clients always want more fancy sliders. Thanks again!
I actually heard the vote was for Kevin Spacey.
Posted by
hackDaily on Friday October 28, 2011 @09:34AM
from the show-hn dept.
Just bought this app about a week ago and have been amazed ever since. It's surreal how you can travel back and forth through time and see the cosmos unfold.
I find this quite brilliant. I'm a fan of simplicity and minimalism, and this is a good example of implementing the bare-minimum and getting something useful out of it. I'm actually a bit jealous I didn't think of it first. Good work, and good luck to you!
Just got rid of our Scope Creeper yesterday, it was getting ugly. Funny enough, this client was also our Buzzturd. Thanks for the fun read!
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hackDaily on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @09:27AM
from the girbal.net dept.
I think this looks promising. Does it handle custom fonts? I had a problem with rendering custom fonts with the hack job of a screenshot app I'd built for myself. Best of luck to you though!
Honestly, I didn't see much that doesn't still apply to writing JavaScript today. However, I think overall code organization and re-usability is something that today's JS devs need to think more about. It's too easy to whip together a bunch of "cowboy code" with so many plug-ins and libraries available.
Seems to hit it right on the nose. I write JavaScript for a living and can say that each of these skills is fundamental to my success. Good read.
Very cool! This makes for some interesting UI ideas. Also, it's not often that you see something this unique in the land of JS plugins. Good work.