Posts Written by "evan-x-merz"

Evan X. Merz

Evan X. Merz holds degrees in computer science and music from The University of Rochester, Northern Illinois University, and University of California at Santa Cruz. He works as a programmer at a tech company in Silicon Valley. In his free time, he is a programmer, musician, and author. He makes his online home at evanxmerz.com and he only writes about himself in third person in this stupid blurb.

Posts Written by "evan-x-merz"

How to Debug a webpage in Chrome

15 January, 2023, Evan X. Merz

programming, web-programming, javascript, web-development, chrome

In this post, I'm going to show you several ways to debug javascript in Google Chrome. TLDR: Shift + ctrl + c Open the javascript console…

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What is the DOM?

09 January, 2023, Evan X. Merz

web-programming, javascript, web-development, dom, document-object-model

In this post, I'm going to introduce the Document Object Model, which is better known as the DOM. TLDR: The DOM is the way a webpage is…

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Introduction to JavaScript

07 January, 2023, Evan X. Merz

programming, web-programming, javascript, web-development, web-design

In this post, I'm going to introduce the JavaScript programming language and show you a few ways it's commonly used on the web. WARNING…

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Other useful HTML elements

06 January, 2023, Evan X. Merz

programming, web-programming, html, web-development, web-design

In this post, I'm going to introduce some HTML elements that are still useful in the modern web development, even if they aren't used as…

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Introduction to CSS

05 January, 2023, Evan X. Merz

programming, web-programming, css, web-development, web-design

In this post, I'm going to introduce CSS, and demonstrate how it can be used to apply styles to a web page. TLDR: CSS defines the look and…

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