Passwords, as essential as they are to our online security, should never appear in plain-text. It is the worst way to store a password, and compromises the essential security function of a password. Unfortunately, there are some unscrupulous web services out there that do exactly that. Too many times I have clicked the “Forgot your password?” button on a site, and …
This weekend, I participated in my first mass coding event ever. Even though I’ve been coding since middle school, I’d never gone to an event purely focused on coding and web design. The event was Seattle GiveCamp, held at the beautiful Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Over Friday night and into the weekend, GiveCamp volunteers helped over 20 non-profit organizations …
This article originally appeard on Mahdi Yusuf’s blog. It was originally titled Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes. 7th September, 2011 I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. …
Since HTML5 came out, I’ve been wondering if JavaScript had an onMouseDrag event. Turns out they don’t. The fictional onMouseDrag event would fire when a user clicks, holds, and drags their mouse across an element on the screen. This could be useful with HTML5 sliders, like such: Value of slider: Say we wanted to change the number in the text …
Slideshows and carousels can add a lot to your website. They can be used in headers, blog posts, image showcases and more. Today, we’ll learn how to create your own slideshow from scratch with Javascript and a little HTML.