So while I’m waiting to hear back from a few people I’m talking to about full time jobs I’ve been spending my time freelancing and working on my own stuff. One thing I’ve tried to put a lot of effort into lately is blogging. I was listening to a terrific podcast about web design called Boag World where they talked about what they (two guys who run a fairly popular web firm in the UK) look for in potential employees, and one of the things they said was that seeing a applicant with an active blog where they talked about things that they are tinkering with in web development and just digging deeper into web development concepts is more important then a bachelors degree. This made a lot of sense to me.

In my last post I talked about how I started developing my own mini-API so that I could keep some of the data I use on different sites of mine in the same place, for example my links for different web sites I use around the web, you can get ...

I decided a few things up front, first that each element would be the same width and that each time you moved the menu it would move the width of one menu element. Next I decided only to focus on moving it in one direction, left. Getting the elements to move was simple. I first was thinking about using some type of hit test to tell what objects were visible and based on the width of the menu figuring out what I needed to show. I decided that this would not be a good way to do it since it might make the script unadaptive to some situations (and one of the goals of this was to be able to reuse it in future projects).