My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
I’ve made a nice little FBJS Slider that I use quite often for animation within facebook. I hope that little snippets and code like this will help other developers make more interested and appealing Facebook applications, like we do at Room 214 currently. First with the styling #slideWrap creates an extremely wide canvas for the [...]
I’ve only recently started developing Facebook Apps and being a strong front-end developer I was confident that I would be able to pickup FBJS quickly. My confidence what short-lived however, once i discovered that Facebook had a very restricting framework and cache system that would make JS programming something quite a bit less desirable than awesome frameworks like jQuery.
As a developer, I’m always looking for ways to improve my coding practices and efficiency. In the programming world, I work almost completely with frameworks such as Zend and CodeIgnitor using MVC at it’s fullest. On the front-end, I’ve learned to use Blueprint CSS combined with semantic markup to standardize my layouts. But now, I’ve [...]
There are many ways to communicate and store data from front-end to back-end, but many require AJAX which may take too much time to develop or might not fit the project correctly. A neat alternative to save data and be able to access that data from the server is using browser cookies. Cookies can be created and destroyed by javascript, and while the syntax can be confusing, I’ve gathered this little script that will make it easier to use…
sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement): allows for dynamically-generated snippets of text to use any font supported in Flash using a combination of JavaScript and Flash embedding to replace characters on the page.
In my last post regarding sIFR, I compared sIFR against Cufon and FLIR. Since there is a great deal of interest in them, I decided to go deeper into what I believe is the superior out of the three..
There are SO MANY articles out there that get very deep into web development and programming concepts, but not many people know what to start learning if you’re just starting in this field. I’ve put together a well-rounded list of resources and websites to read on a regular basis and learn as much as you can. If you become familiar with all of these websites, you’ll quickly be the best in your field. All the information is free to anyone with a passion or desire to learn.
