Unemployed Developer

Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery

Quick and easy tutorial to follow in making a post to wall script, using jQuery Read More

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I’m a bit late to blog this, but better late than never.

Since I’m a big fan of jQuery I felt I should at least plug their new release and you can find it at jquery14.com

The code has been heavily re-factored to improve performance and reduce it’s overall complexity. Day One took the opportunity to show off some fancy bar charts of it’s speed improvements. The uncompressed file is 156KB and the minified file is a 23KB(gzipped).

They also announced they closed 207 bugs. Which as a developer is impressive because we all are petty lazy, amirite? Ok bad humour aside, 207 is an impressive number to me.
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HTTP Headers for Dummies

I have had a couple job interviews where I was asked about HTTP methods and while I have used some of the code in this link, describing it was not my forte. This article has not helped me get a deeper grasp of what I was doing it and how to explain it to another person. Read More

5 HTML Tags You Might not Know

Acronym was the only tag I did not know about and for SEO purposes it looks like it might be really helpful. Check this article out and see if the other ones are new to you as well. Read More

IE6 Fixes For PNG Alpha Transparency

Still stuck on IE6 and need PNG support? this article has listed 5 methods of enabling transparency for PNG images, although the fixes are superb, they are not without flaws but they certainly will help your site more aesthetic in IE6. Read More

I’d like to welcome any new and returning visitors to “Unemployed Developer“. The idea for this blog came about when taking part in many interviews with prospective employers. As an unemployed developer looking for work, I often found myself struggling with questions. For example,  I received questions about a topic that I could make work or I knew the basics, but could not describe in a cohesive manner that showed the interviewer that, yes I do have knowledge about said subject. I also I felt that, while I did not have projects to show an interviewer knowledge of some topics, I certainly could blog about some topics and gain first hand knowledge, thus making a much more hire able developer.
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