I’ve been learning quite a bit about JavaScript in writing algorithms from Cracking the Coding Interview. I learned something new about strings in JavaScript and how they can be accessed. From MDN:

I finished my third algorithm from Cracking the Coding Interview - the Trie.

I finished my second algorithm from Cracking the Coding Interview - the Binary Heap. This algorithm racketed up the complexity from the Linked List.

In working with Twitter Bootstrap Forms, one of my favorite ways to lay out a form is using the Horizontal form layout. The layout requires a bit of css/html to get each of the form elements (the text boxes and what not) to play nicely. To add form elements to the horizontal form layout, you need the following html structure for each field:

I finished my first algorithm from Cracking the Coding Interview - the almighty Singly Linked List.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’m a big fan of Twitter Bootstrap. Lately I’ve been playing been with JavaScript and Derby. I want to integrate bootstrap with the POC site I’m building, and the creators of Derby have already figured out a way to do this.

A friend and co-worker of mine (one of the best and brightest I’ve worked with) recently left our company to go work for Microsoft. Having gone through the Microsoft interview process myself (hilariously unprepared, to the enjoyment of my interviewer), I wondered what he had done to get ready for the process. He recommended one book - Cracking the Coding Interview - which he said had been recommended to him as the bible for preparation.

In my previous post about derby, I talked a bit about how to create a model in derby and one rule you need to follow when creating models (the first two path segments should be an object).

EDIT NOTE: This no longer needs to be done outside of Modernizr. This was added to the Modernizr package about a month ago. Link to issue

Been playing around with Derby in my spare time. The idea behind the platform is smart - using node and express, you write one set of code, and that code automatically syncs data between browsers, servers, and a database.