http://hancic.info thoughts by Jan Hančič Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:10:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An Event Apart has put together a 10K Apart challenge in which participants must write a fully functional HTML5 application while using only 10K. I had to take part, so I've made a simple, totally unoriginal and ugly todo app called FuglyDo5 (I'll appreciate a vote). It uses some new HTML5 tags some basic CSS3 ... http://hancic.info/10k-apart-challenge By I, I mean we, and by we, I mean me and my boss. And by me and my boss, I mean everybody who manages other people or their experiences of whatever sort. For example, you walk into a groceries store and immediately see 10 things that are just wrong or plain old stupid. And you think: ... http://hancic.info/i-may-or-may-not-be-incompetent Working in IT, I'm painfully aware that technology I learn about today can, and most probably will, be obsolete tomorrow. And I'm quite happy with that as it gives me reason to learn new stuff constantly. But recently I was reminded that even stuff that you think you know and ... http://hancic.info/knowledge-is-a-tricky-business I was in the office almost all day this past Sunday. Many people asked me: "why"? Here is my answer: I love what I do, I don't consider my work as a job but something I do because I enjoy it. The fact that I'm living off of it is just a ... http://hancic.info/why-i-worked-on-sunday I don't really get the whole new year thing. Everybody is talking about change and good wishes and what not, but I don't see how anything will change just because of a simple date increment. I guess humanity needs this artificial mile stones to reflect on what has been done and what has happened. Having said that, ... http://hancic.info/what-ive-done-in-2009 As I've mentioned in my previous post, I had a lecture about Sass at WebCampLjubljana in November. Guys that put the whole thing together now published the videos (every lecture was recorded) and here is my lecture: Sass – a better way to write CSS from Jan Hančič on Vimeo. It was ... http://hancic.info/my-lecture-at-webcampljubljana-video I've been playing with extensions in Chrome lately. It's amazing how simple it is to make an extension, if you know JavaScript, HTML and CSS you are all set to go. Read this tutorial from Google to see for yourself. I'm now coding something that will, hopefully, someday become a ... http://hancic.info/badge-animator-for-chrome-extensions JavaScript is getting more and more important in the development of web pages and web applications. Unfortunately JavaScript is rather slow on some of the browsers (I'm looking at you IE), so we must strive to make our code as efficient as possible so that our users get a quick and responsive ... http://hancic.info/simple-jquery-optimization-tips I will have a lecture next weekend at WebCampLjubljana. I will be lecturing about Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets), a better way of writing CSS. I don't know at what time my lecture will be so come and stay the whole day, there will be tons of other great lectures. I am ... http://hancic.info/my-lecture-at-webcampljubljana Based on recent experience, Opera is a really crappy browser to develop for. It's developer tools are almost totally useless and it has this wired bugs that you can't find any info on how to fix them. At least with IE every bug and quirk is covered in great detail ... http://hancic.info/hey-opera-i-hate-you