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28 Aug 2011 Endless Scroll (a.k.a. Endless Page) with jQuery

I decided to write a super lightweight endless scroll (a.k.a. endless page, pageless, without pagination, etc.) plugin for jQuery. It will let me trigger some code whenever the user scrolls within a certain number of pixels from the bottom of the page. I’ll get right to the juicy details. Here is the plugin code, and yes, it’s written in CoffeeScript. If you need javascript, feel free to copy...

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About Me

Matt Hodan is a entrepreneur, investor, and technologist.

Matt began his career in finance, working for two years as an Analyst at J.P. Morgan. While at J.P. Morgan, Matt provided strategic M&A advisory services to leading companies.

After J.P. Morgan, Matt worked for two years as an Associate at Genstar Capital, a middle-market private equity investment firm. While at Genstar Capital, Matt identified investment opportunities, executed new acquisitions, and monitored portfolio investments.

After Genstar Capital, Matt joined Y-Combinator and started two companies: Data Marketplace and Smart Shortcuts. Data Marketplace is an online marketplace for tabular data. Smart Shortcuts is an Excel productivity add-in for financial analysts.

Matt has been programming since childhood, and has developed applications in C, C++, C#, VB.NET, VBA, Perl, Java, PHP, and Ruby. Today, Matt spends most of his time creating new Ruby on Rails web applications.

Matt received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University in 2005. When he's not working, Matt loves to play tennis, snow ski, sail, play piano, invest, and talk about new business ideas.