http://www.klauskomenda.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:40:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little while ago I had some issues with my Washburn Electric Acoustic. At the second visit to Guitar Center in San Jose, I happened to meet Glenn, owner of Sweetwood Guitar Company. He immediately offered his help, which I found really great. In the end, because Guitar Center guys ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/11/21/custom-guitars-from-sweetwood-guitar-company/ I have used YUI2 quite extensively since I joined Yahoo! in May 2007. Before that I did not really have much experience with any JavaScript library, I had played around with script.aculo.us and jQuery a little bit, but that was all, pretty much. Because here at Yahoo! we, naturally, use ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/07/20/first-steps-with-yui3/ It has been a while since the late nineties in which JavaScript was (ab)used in a very hacky way, i.e. having to work around browser vendor proprietary code (Internet Explorer and Netscape) and, because it provided such a nice variation to otherwise static pages, adding the most useless features to ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/04/25/book-review-object-oriented-javascript/ My first half marathon experience in Vienna last year was just overwhelmingly great. So only a few months later, in August 2008 in fact, I decided that, no matter what, I want to do it again. Moving to California and with all the things you have to get done when ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/04/20/vienna-city-half-marathon-take-two/ Buying a car, no matter in what country you are in, is always both exciting and tedious/exhausting at the same time. At least for me. Some people are probably waking up one day and decide that they want a new car and on the next day they sign a contract ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/04/12/buying-a-car-in-the-us/ Initially I was under the oh so wrong impression that moving to Sunnyvale from San Francisco, and closer to the Yahoo! office, would be a piece of cake. How could I have ever underestimated this undertaking? I have no idea, but I obviously did. So what happened in those last ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/03/07/resurrection/ There is JSLint for JavaScript, PHP_CodeSniffer for PHP...why not have some sort of code checking tool for CSS? Based on the outcome of several code reviews we had at Yahoo! Europe, I thought that it would come in handy having a tool that would catch findings automatically. So over the ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/12/20/css-reviewr/ I graduated from University in 2006 in Austria and wrote my diploma thesis on Location Based Services. I talked about the foundations and technologies that need to be in place in order to provide such a service to users of cell phones and mobile devices. To round it up, I ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/12/13/location-based-services-my-book-on-amazon/ My bags were packed, I got my visa and my passport in my pocket. And so I jumped on a plane on November 12 to go to San Francisco via Munich. I have been over here for a little bit over a week now in total and I am ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/11/21/first-days-in-the-new-world/ With higher expectations, both in terms of design and interaction of websites, which are more like web applications these days, the amount and size of JavaScript and CSS files used have increased dramatically during the last couple of years. Ajax, Drag & Drop, Animation...if your site doesn't keep up with ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/10/22/wordpress-plugin-shrinkr/