Hello, World! In this post, I would just like to take a moment to outline my goals for this website. In learning different technologies, I’ve realized that certain paradigm shifts or concepts are de-facto hurdles to be overcome in the learning of a language or technology. With this in mind, I wish to categorize and detail my experiences learning new technologies and programming languages to serve as a short guide to the problems I faced and challenges I needed to overcome in learning a given tech. Certainly, websites such as StackOverflow provide instant-answers to such problems, but I intend to provide the narrative behind the problem and hopefully expose some insight into the problem-solving process.
As per the website title, I’m challenging myself to learn one new technology a month. Less time for a programming language, framework, or concept [a "prog"] would give only cursory knowledge, but I hope to hit that sweet spot by which I could name a prog as the right tool for a problem and not restrict myself to only currently known progs.
So, what do do from here, you ask? Learn jQuery. I’ve always been opposed to the web as platform, mostly due to IE6, but flex has convinced me that there is a light, and jQuery seems to be another beacon in the treatorous sea that is supporting internet explorer. Granted, I now believe IE8 to be a valid browser contender and a solid improvement to both IE and web browsers as a whole, but IE6 continues to infest the waters of the web, and developers are forced to hack their way through the dragons and krakens.
Ranting aside, jQuery appears to offer a number of handy selectors and event handling mechanisms that make developing for IE less-painful than before. Someone else abstracted away the nonsense, and we as developers profit. 