sparkygoblue

Joined 15 years ago

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Apr 2
Computer programming teacher and web developer. Hacking away on getsubmitbox.com.

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Comment · 13 years ago
Consider caching your element selectors like this:

var $image = $('#my-div img');

This way jQuery doesn't have to traverse the DOM more than once to select the element.

Also, I believe you can do all of your mousedown() event code in one block.

Edit: oops, upon further inspection, I see you are doing this all in the console. Caching the selector is still possible, but now I understand why you did the mousedown() event the way you did.

Comment · 13 years ago
University of Michigan grad here. Keep up the good work gentlemen. Go Blue!
Comment · 13 years ago
I noticed that as well. I think he was implying that the first URL structure isn't possible in PHP, which of course is not true.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Ugh. Articles like this make me want to join the PHP sucks crowd, and I really hate the PHP sucks crowd.
Comment · 13 years ago
I've been teaching computer programming to high school students for close to 15 years. In that time, I've seen the demand grow more and more as the stigmatism of computer programming being a "geeky" or "uncool" pursuit has slowly dissipated.

The types of skills taught in computer programming courses -- abstraction, high-level problem solving, complex logic -- are ones I believe all students should have some level of proficiency in by the time they leave high school.

Comment · 14 years ago
$1000 per month for your servers seems really high. Where are you hosting this?
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I thought about creating something like this a few months ago, but I thought that Stripe would almost certainly create something like this themselves in the near future.

Either way, this looks good, and I'll keep it in mind for future projects.

Comment · 14 years ago
I've been teaching kids to code for over 10 years now. It's an exciting time to be a computer programming teacher. The amount of resources (mostly free) that make teaching young people computer programming easier and far more enjoyable have grown exponentially since I started teaching. The last two to three years in particular have seen an explosion of online education sites and materials.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for the feedback Matt. I think you're right. I'm going to remove the CC info fields from my sign up form.

By the way, bugmuncher looks cool. Congrats!

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