I was recently on a project where I needed a really flexible persistent data storage mechanism. Normally, this would be fairly easily handled via server-side data persistence code but in this case, each page of the app was basically a… Continue Reading
I have some downtime at the moment so I wanted to get back to coding a little bit. One of the things I’ve been wanting to mess around with for some time is the Flickr API, mainly because I upload… Continue Reading
I mentioned last week that I wanted to improve my knowledge of JavaScript and outlined some books which I really believe are top references for doing just that. The first book that I’ve started with is Beginning JavaScript with DOM… Continue Reading
As I begin 2009, I've been pondering quite a bit about which direction I'd like to take my career in. At the age of 40, I'm certainly not a spring chicken but I do feel that I'm at a great… Continue Reading
Jonathan Snook will be conducting a live chat tomorrow (3/5/08) at 10:00am EST (15:00 GMT) via UStream. Here are the details: Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/snookca Date/Time: 3/5/08 at 10:00am EST (15:00 GMT) Topic: Q&A relating to Jonathan's development work with Adobe AIR,… Continue Reading
I have to say that at one point, I truly thought that JavaScript was using some type of “black magic”. Things such as closures really threw me for a loop and I was fortunate to have some good folks to… Continue Reading
NextTag.com is a service that aggregates product info from different vendors and offers comparison shopping. Essentially, vendors have to work to ensure that they offer the lowest prices for a product so that when a consumer compares prices among the… Continue Reading
Just got this from Ajaxian. IE has always had the crappiest set of JavaScript debugging tools forcing developers to try to troubleshoot issues via alert() or jumping to FireFox w/ Firebug to troubleshoot. Well, Jean-Fabrice Rabaute has a solution. He… Continue Reading
Last month I set out to see how far I could compress the CF8 JavaScript files. As many have come to find out, the YUI, Ext and Spry JS files can be rather large and I wanted to bring them… Continue Reading
Ajaxian is reporting about a very neat and cool bookmarklet, XRay, that helps you visually get information about specific elements on your page. The site best describes its functionality as “a free cross browser tool (a bookmarklet) that lets you… Continue Reading