John Polacek

I released a new plugin called [BigVideo.js](http://johnpolacek.github.io/BigVideo.js/) for adding fullscreen video to your websites.

I gave a talk at Prototype Camp Chicago entitled “The Never Ending Quest To Build Cool Stuff’.

I took a look at a collection of Front End Interview Questions and provided my answers.

Notes from the keynoteds and talks I saw at Techweek Chicago Day 5

Notes from the talks I saw on Techweek Day 4, including Travis Kalanick, CEO & Co-founder of Uber and Leah Busque, Founder of TaskRabbit

Notes from the talks I saw at Techweek Chicago Day 3, including the Fireside Chat with Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals / Basecamp

Notes from the talks I saw at Techweek Chicago Day 2

Chicago’s Techweek Conference kicked off with a speech from Mayor Rahm Emanual...

Today at work I was asked to share a list of ‘10 Super Cool Websites’ and here’s what I picked in no particular order.

Some great rules to follow when writing, from [this George Orwell essay](http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit)

Some random notes from the various sessions and discussions I’ve had during my time in Austin

Some things I took away from the Killer App Design session byJonathon Morgan

Some of the highlights from one of the best sessions I’ve been to at SXSW, which was CSS For Grown-Ups by Andy Hume.

People have been asking about my Match The Letter game , so I thought I’d make a quick update post about it.

Wow, what a great few weeks I’ve had.

Over my holiday/new-baby-time-off break, I took some time to work on [Scrollorama](https://johnpolacek.github.io/scrollorama/), the jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly things.

I’ve just posted a new project to Github.

Who isn’t on Github these days.

A few of the things that I have been into lately.

There are so many great sources of web design and development inspiration out there.

Finally finished our house renovations a couple weeks ago with a fresh coat of paint on the walls.

Match the Letter has just passed 10,000 downloads in total.

Been a real busy couple months working on a few different projects.

My latest app, Match The Letter, is now available on the iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace.

I’ve just posted the video gallery Corona SDK app template I’ve been working on up to [Github](https://github.com/johnpolacek/Video-Gallery).

I’ve made updates to my code library (performance improvements mostly) and moved it from svn/google code to [github](https://github.com/johnpolacek/code.johnpolacek.com)

I may not get to everything on this list, but that’s ok.

In my spare time over the holidays, I worked on developing a game app for phones.

A site I worked on went live a couple days ago.

The graphic novel for which I recently finished the art, Missile To The Moon, is now up for preview.

Looking back at my year in 2010, here are some things that stand out (professionally that is).

My first tutorial, Master HTML Formatted Text in Flash , has been published to ActiveTuts+ , the best website there is for Flash tutorials.

Recap of a busy month at work.

Over at my company’s corporate blog, I wrote a guest post about the ‘Multiscreen Revolution’ and my experiences at Adobe Max.

Stuff I learned on the final day of Adobe MAX

Stuff I learned on day 2 of Adobe MAX

Today was my first day at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles.