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A little bit about me...

Front-End Web Developer (USA):

Front-end web development/architecture with a focus on internal web applications and public-facing platforms for companies in Manhattan, New York City & Austin, Texas. My focus is development with: XHTML/HTML5, CSS2/3, jQuery, jQueryUI, jQuery Mobile, Titanium Mobile, bootstrap, backbone.js, angularJS, and good ol' ECMA Scriptv3/5. I represent BlueRocket Associates and McKinsey & Company, Midtown New York City.

Recent Blog Comments By chrisVillanueva

• Creating AngularJS Controllers With Instance Methods

  Posted on Feb 14, 2013 at 11:08 PM

  @Ben Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your candid response about the change in your approach. I suppose this is bound to happen as we feel our way around new libraries and such. It does take a developer some time to feel his/her way around Angular. I'm going through that process right... read more »

• Creating AngularJS Controllers With Instance Methods

  Posted on Dec 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM

  Hi Ben. I enjoyed this post. I think it's a great approach when building angularJS controllers. I've built 4 controllers using this pattern and had good success with it. Do you use this approach only for controllers? Have you found the need to namespace any modules within angular... read more »

• Video Presentation: Regular Expressions, Extraordinary Power

  Posted on Feb 28, 2012 at 11:33 PM

  Hi Ben. Hey, just wanted to say thanks for this video tutorial. It really helped me create some regex solutions for front-end data validation. Keep up the good work. Chris... read more »

• How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation

  Posted on Jan 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM

  Nice post Ben. I spend a lot of time with our back-end Java programmers discussing how the validation/form data "handoff" should occur. I think the modern front-end layer should make it easy for users to complete form inputs, while making sure data is valid. This ensures a richer... read more »

• Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array With jQuery

  Posted on Dec 23, 2011 at 3:25 PM

  Hi Ben. hey, this post gave me some ideas on a problem i had to solve. i needed to convert a large multi-dimensional array with object elements into a nested unordered list. just wanted to let you know that your content helps out, once again! chris... read more »

• Use jQuery's SlideDown() With Fixed-Width Elements To Prevent Jumping

  Posted on Nov 11, 2011 at 2:05 PM

  hi ben! thanks for the detailed explanation. this makes a whole lot of sense.... read more »