Category Archives: Javascript

Selenium Continuous Integration Runner

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Todd Huss

At Common Sense Media I wanted to get some functional testing up and running that didn’t require a lot of user training for the QA folks. I also wanted those tests to run in our Rightscale/Amazon EC2 hosted Hudson continuous … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile Development, Continuous Integration, Java, Javascript, Quality Assurance, Software Engineering, Testing | 4 Comments

Simple CMS using Google Spreadsheet API

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Todd Huss

Update 6/14/2007: Dion Almaer has published a nice Javascript helper which makes working with spreadsheets much nicer, I’ve moved my stuff to it and it’s a big improvement over using the Google JSON api directly. Publishing dynamic content on your … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, Javascript, Software Engineering | 12 Comments

Ajax enabling crusty legacy webapps with Prototype

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Todd Huss

With all of the hype around Ajax it’s easy to think you might need an MVC framework with baked in Ajax support like Rails ActionPack or JBoss Seam to make Ajax easy. However, libraries like Prototype (which is what Rails … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, CSS, Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 1 Comment

Javascript debugging in Internet Explorer

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Todd Huss

It always drives me nuts when I get a Javascript error in Internet Explorer that I can’t reproduce in Firefox because I’m used to debugging Javascript in Firefox with Firebug. I finally had to buckle down and figure out how … Continue reading →

Posted in Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 2 Comments

Deferring ad loading on your pages to avoid unnecessary outages

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Todd Huss

At GreatSchools we’ve had 3rd party ad server outages or slowness effectively make our site unusable as users browsers waited for certain ads to render before rendering the rest of the page. I had originally thought just specifying height and … Continue reading →

Posted in CSS, Design, Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 2 Comments

Enhancements to subModal

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Todd Huss

I started hacking around with subModal (modal javascript windows with background shading) this morning to add some features I liked in Lightbox Gone Wild. You can try it out and download my changes to subModal here. They are

Posted in Design, Javascript, Web | 31 Comments

Hiring a web front-end engineer and a rant

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Todd Huss

Update 3/28/06: Still looking… not for a web designer but a web front-end engineer. Jemery does a good job of describing the distrinction. No doubt about it, this is a hot skill set that is extremely hard to find! I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Javascript, Web | 6 Comments

Modal windows with Javascript and CSS

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Todd Huss

One of the side projects I spent a little time on today was researching the use of on-page modal dialog boxes using Javascript and CSS that shade or darken the rest of the page while they are open. It looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop, Javascript, Web | 3 Comments