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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  • PatCavit.com

    - May 25th, 2009

    Sunday morning I had a few too many skittles after waking up and decided I wanted to build an actual landing page on patcavit.com So then I started on it, I had grand plans. There were even icons that I was going to grab from… somewhere. That part of it was rather poorly planned. After doing [...]

  • YUI Uploader Updated

    - November 30th, 2008

    The uploader I wrote and talked about in YUI Upload Implementation has been updated to work with YUI 2.6.0 and also with the new Flash security rules for browsing files. The changes were relatively minor, but here’s a quick explanation. A new element had to be added that could overlay the button that lets you select [...]

  • I did an in-place upgrade of the server component for the Xbox Friends Gadget that should make counts of online users more accurate. I meant to do this in 1.3 and just forgot about it. Phantom friends have been driving me crazy lately, so hopefully this quiets that down. Seems to be working well so [...]

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