Our second Lunch-n-Learn Thursday featured James on chef duty cooking from items purchased at the Andersonville Farmer’s Market and Bryan as chief educator.

Chef James whipped up Easy Roasted Red Potatoes with Barbecue Chicken and a Summer Salad while Professor Bryan enlightened us on the wonders of using jQuery to build web interfaces. Here’s what went down . . .

Flash is amazing. For years it has allowed programmers to do what was impossible in the browser.

When it comes to games, rich media, and specifically video, it has been eating HTML and JavaScript’s lunch for years. No longer. With improvements in JavaScript speed, the creation of browser agnostic libraries to simplify development, and the wide adoption of AJAX for asynchronous communication, it would seem that JavaScript is back.

The original Mightybytes site had a section which would pull random quotes about the company and display them in a container. The quotes were hard coded into an XML file, and as we moved the site over into Expression Engine, I wanted to move the quotes into the system as well. A cool back-end redesign deserves an even cooler front-end redesign, so I created a gadget which could cycle through all the quotes in the system. My concept was an infinitely scrolling system of tiles, which would slide in the direction indicated by the user.