Pat Cavit.com

I’m a Frontend Engineer/Web Developer working at ArenaNet in Bellevue, WA. I specialize in complicated JS applications and implementing cross-browser designs. I’m obsessed with making sites that are as fast as possible and accessible to everybody. Contact me via email: pcavit@gmail.com.

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  1. Xbox Friends gadget is dead

    - January 10th, 2011

    The Xbox Friends gadget required access to an API to get xbox data, and since they’re very stingy about giving out access to the official one I had to go through a 3rd party one offered by a generous soul. Sadly, that API is no more, so the gadget no longer functions. If I can [...]

  2. If you’re already using the YUI 3 Loader to load some of your CSS like I do for some sites this can come in really handy. You could also do this via conditional comments, but you can’t control when the load happens in that case. The trick is to define the trigger for the MHTML [...]

  3. Basic YUI 3 Plugin tutorial

    - July 2nd, 2010

    Ever since the release of the PR2 version of YUI3 the library has support for writing plugins. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be taken advantage of all that often & comes up a lot in the IRC channel as something people don’t understand. So let’s see if we can’t clarify the matter a little. At [...]

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  1. RT @natekoechley # 2 days ago
  2. Akamai doesn't allow for passthrough CORS headers from the origin server, so much for web fonts on our CDN. Thanks Firefox & Akamai! # 2 days ago
  3. RT @juliandibbell # 2 days ago
  4. The video of Fiona saying "woof" (or thereabouts) that @mistybutt mentioned. http://t.co/Xr9QLtGT # 4 days ago
  5. Waiting for 97 individual diffs to be rendered takes a while. # 4 days ago
  6. XBMC takes bite out of Raspberry Pi (via TechReport) http://t.co/ww7mlxGl # 5 days ago
  7. Got the whole family room floor installed, couldn't have done it w/o @brianbelknap and Kendra! # 6 days ago
  8. Strange goings-on in the Cavit household tonight. http://t.co/yoEYhZbm # 1 week ago

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