Andrew Heins

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5 Posts found from March 2011


Intro to Mixins (in Javascript)

based off microevent.js by jeromeetienne https://github.com/jeromeetienne/microevent.js/blob/master/microevent.js I was just reading through microevent.js by jeromeetienne and stumbled across the awesomeness that are Javascript mixins! I’ve use his code as a template to show how mixins work in Javascript.   Hey! Just let me see the darn demo!   And to those of you who stuck with [...]


The Frustrated Generalist

Nathan Ford recently wrote a blog called Be Mega, focusing on being a generalist. As a frustrated generalist, I found this article triggered some of my reservations with having never specialized. Like I said, I’m a generalist. I’ve held a number of positions within the jobs and projects I’ve had (front-end developer, back-end developer, information architect, [...]


IE, DOCTYPE and Document Modes

Just in time for the release of IE9 (which, as an XP user, I can’t use), let’s talk about IE8!  Do you ever find your pages rendering funny in Internet Explorer 8 (or later) on other people’s machines that seem to look fine on yours? One reason why this can happen is due to the [...]


Event Binding in Javascript

If you’ve recently picked up Javascript, you may have been quickly introduced to jQuery, mooTools or some other javascript framework that hides away many of the more rudamentary javascript functions that take place in a standard web application. While that’s convenient on the surface, it’s important to know how to do the same tasks without [...]


Changing Gears

Over the past three and a half years at The Printing House, I’ve learned an incredible amount. I came in as a green pup with a few HTML chops and no real work experience, and have emerged a Web Project Manager leading an amazing team of developers and designers on some amazing projects, with a few [...]