I know, it’s been a while. A long while. What have I been up to? Oh, a little bit of this and a little bit of that and maybe a pinch of this.

And speaking of what I’ve been up to, I’ve mostly been focused on my job at Cloudera, which is teh awesomes. How awesome? Well, I work in an awesome space with awesome people on awesome projects.

…and we want you. Were looking for someone to help us build a lot of cool things, and the job involves a lot of JavaScript. We push code into various MooTools projects daily. It’s all built on MooTools ART, ART Widgets, MooTools More, and of course Clientcide’s JS, as well as other such goodies. You’ll be hacking with the cutting edge of MooTools and pushing your work back into the community.

Here’s our sales pitch:

There’s more to UI development than writing a bunch of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You know what we mean; it takes design sensibilities to do it well. It’s the kind of thing you know when you see it – when things work smoothly and intuitively. Cloudera (recently voted as the #1 startup by VC Journal – http://cl.ly/fb5cc4338f0d07fc5539 ) is looking for someone with those kinds of sensibilities to help us build Cloudera Desktop – a virtual web-OS style application suite for managing large Hadoop data clusters. We want to make working with a virtual cloud of computers as slick as OSX or Ubuntu and to do it we’re writing some cutting edge JavaScript, but the people writing it need to have some design sense, too. If you enjoy spending time in Photoshop and Illustrator as much as you enjoy writing closures and recursive functions, then you’ve found the right job.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in developing web UI applications.
• Solid grasp of cross-browser, object-oriented JavaScript (closures, inheritance, etc)
• Significant experience in developing AJAX-enabled web applications
• Experience in coding standards-compliant semantic markup in XHTML/CSS
• Knowledge of and a preference for JavaScript frameworks such as MooTools, jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, etc.
• A passion for writing super optimized and clean code
• Some experience designing user experiences; a working knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator

Strong Plus:

• Experience with data and information visualization is a strong plus
• Experience building web applications in Django/Python
• Experience developing desktop applications UI (e.g. with Adobe Air)

Involvement in an open source project (examples: committing code, writing plugins, involvement in user forums) preferably one focused on JavaScript

If you’re interested, ping me and send me your resume.

It’s xmas eve and I don’t have time to explain it, but I will later tonight or tomorrow. I’m removing Element.Delegate from my repository for now. Basically, it was premature. It just wasn’t ready for release and I don’t have time to fix it. I’ll revisit it in the next few days.

There is a new “Facebook” application that utilizes CNETs great API system. This app that was developed is called “My Tech”.
Apart from the great technology use, it is a fun way to show off your latest tech gear to your friends. The best part is you can show your disdain for certain tech products if you absolutely hate it… Good times

“Tag line from app profile”
This application allows you to let everyone know about the latest tech gadgets available using MyTech powered by the CNET API. Facebook users can find it at: http://mytech.cnet.com

CNET Report on CNET MYtech

I’ve updated my Mootools Tutorial for the upcoming version 1.0 of the library. It (the library) is still in development, so my tutorial is likely to always be a little behind the svn, but if you’re digging into Mootools for the first time, or you want to see what’s different in version 1.0, here’s the place to start.

I’ve also installed a copy of docuwiki for all my example and tutorial work. The old stuff is still there but I’ll be moving it all over to the wiki. Expect to see more examples of code I’ve written in the coming weeks.

I spotted this post over at the Mootools forums and thought I’d share. It’s really amazing how much you can get out of this little library. One of the things our new framework does is let us create functionality like this and deploy it so any producer/engineer can use it with relatively little effort.

Tabs

The original author asked me for a moo-conversion, work is in progress. Will refactor still much of the code and add support for Dragging into tabcontent (Dragging over a tab activates it).

http://dev.digitarald.de/tabs.html

Playground Dragging (Reverse Dragging)

Dragging reversed, wonky because onStart and onComplete have this 10ms delay, so in some situations the position is changing.

http://dev.digitarald.de/drag.html

Fly-over-background

Scrolling effect, like the effect in flash used on some nice sites. Scrolling from content to content that is attached to a big background image. Just a performance check ;)

http://dev.digitarald.de/tile.html

Ghost Dragging

Shopping Card dragging? Drag your favorite element and drop a copy of it, like in Rich Client Shopping cards or Item-to-Category. Very basic, added my personal spice with ajax and more checks inside my own rich client project ;)

http://dev.digitarald.de/ghostdrag.html

More to come (Better Lightbox, mooSelectBox, conversion of Floating Windows).