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This is a typical example of the UI engineering requirements. They are great. Typical for 2012 in its manifestation. It's a classic. About You Your proven track record of building amazing things speaks for itself.  You are passionate about creating extraordinary web experiences by writing beautiful code . You have extensive experience with JavaScript, DOM Scripting, CSS and semantic HTML and have strong debugging abilities across all major browsers .  You've worked efficiently in large JavaScript codebases and know how to keep the code modular and loosely coupled .  You are comfortable thinking full stack and moving around the codebase as necessary to get the job done, including interfacing with RESTful APIs and implementing supporting mid-tier code in Java . The Role The clean, intuitive, and beautiful user interface you will build will play a critical role our user experience -- allowing users to navigate through data and visually manipulate mass...

I found it! The code written in February 2010 for the company called kaChing , later - WealthFront . So-called kaChing hired a recruiter -  Dane Santos , who contacted me through linkedin on Saturday morning, and insisted I cancelled my plans for the weekend. Instead, he said, I should not miss this great opportunity and waste spend a weekend prototyping a Widget for kaChing . I agreed. And I wrote the code. And I spent a beautiful weekend day not on the beach playing with children, but in front of the computer. And I sent my code back to Dane Santos. And this is a feedback I have received "from kaChing" through Dave: Regretfully, kaChing will not be moving forward with you.   Here are a few technical comments they shared with me on your code exercise: - update is triggered by button click instead of form submit, so Enter doesn't work - document.forms isn't as robust or as simple as using an id on the text input - arrow uses an img element instead of backgrou...

It's time to update this blog again. It's been a while. I completed a range of small assignments, which don't worth to be even mentioned. A lot of HTML, CSS, ExtJS, Prototyping and Photoshoping. But here is the one interesting, which proved to me the importance of HTM5, and showed how much development can rely on frontend, how much processor work now is performed on client's browser, and which direction UI technologies are moving. StumbleUpon contacted me for frontend position, and gave me an assignment. I did not express too much enthusiasm professionalism motivation aptitude to work in this cool fast paced San Francisco shop, I guess. I completed the assignment, and never heard from them again. Here is the result of the assignment: http://portfolio.kardash.net/StumbleUpon/ . Demo prototype of StumbleUpon frontpage. HTML is very simple. Utilizing semantics of HTML5, tags such as <header>, <nav>, <aside>, <section>, <footer>. All the...