{"id":299,"date":"2011-03-24T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kai.mactane.org\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2011-12-30T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T23:03:37","slug":"about-amy-hoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/about-amy-hoy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Amy Hoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was moving beyond self-written AJAX calls and picking up the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries, one of the best resources I could find was Amy Hoy’s Scriptaculous cheat sheet<\/a>. It was hard not<\/em> to find it — or her: Google searches on the things I was dealing with at the time just kept leading back to Slash7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was already advanced enough not to need her “What’s AJAX?” cheatsheet<\/a>, but it was cool that she’d done such a thing. In fact, she had — and still has — a strong streak of “help teach others, so they can get to where I’m at” about her. That’s something I’ve always striven for in myself, but where I haven’t (yet) gotten around to some of the tutorial posts I want to do, Amy’s been nailing that category<\/a> for over 5 years. And she’s been taking it seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later on, when I was getting into Ruby On Rails, Amy’s Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas<\/a> was an eye-opener… and then there was her other article that assured me that it was okay to ditch WEBrick for Mongrel<\/a>, and so many others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Amy doesn’t just know loads about developing in AJAX, JavaScript, and Rails. She goes beyond the ephemera of coding, delving deeper into the things that make programming matter<\/strong>. She asks (and answers) some of the hard questions about usability<\/a>, including a pair of my<\/a> own favorite points<\/a> on the topic. She knows that software is also political<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And she writes damned well. Her style is clear, crisp, and readable — unlike my own tendency to ramble on and use overly-complicated sentences. (For what it’s worth, I talk much the same way. At least I don’t code the way I talk — honest, I don’t!)<\/p>\n

If I can learn from Amy, maybe one day I’ll be as good a blogger as she is. In the meantime, she inspires me to keep improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was moving beyond self-written AJAX calls and picking up the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries, one of the best resources I could find was Amy Hoy’s Scriptaculous cheat sheet. It was hard not to find it — or her: Google searches on the things I was dealing with at the time just kept leading back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,62,114,31,64,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}