It was the late 90s – the internet was new, every rock band had a token DJ, and I was taking up space in either the university bar or the pentium-1 filled computer labs where I was learning to be social and anti-social respectively. During the anti-social times I would read inspiring tutorials and essays […]
Oh Gawker, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against 4chan, when death is on the line”! I chorkled, smugly reassuring myself I was safe […]
Everything has already been done on the internet. I know that, that’s why I never check to see if an idea has been done before I do it. I’d just never do anything otherwise. And here is such a project. It’s called “lowersrc: Loren Ipsum for images”. Lowersrc dynamically generates images for use in prototyping […]
Back in the dark ages of web development (2003) debugging tools were extremely limited. You just had to kind of “think like a browser” to figure out why something wasn’t working. Thankfully, those days were banished forever with the introduction of the extremely influential Web Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick. A while ago I realised […]
Here’s some interesting things that you know about all already. As you loyal readers know, this blog contains very few “here’s a link I found” posts. That’s because I know that you know about it already. But if there was an internet water cooler, I’d certainly rattle off items from a list of things I’d […]
pretend to Ajax (5 seconds) Fullscreen RUN|RUNSTOP Golly gosh Ajax spinners (“throbbers” if you must use the correct term) are boring. They just spin. Not my Ajax throbber. It rocks.
Act like a machine. Web3.0 – the semantic web – is just around the corner (I think we’re at Web2.8.0 at the moment) which means the days of human relevance is coming to an end. We had a good run, and we contributed a lot of semi-interesting things, but now it’s the machines turn. One […]
My co-worker recently asked me what the deal was with all the post-it notes that perpetually orbited me, getting lodged in my hair and coffee and such. My overly detailed explanation caused me to realise that I’d developed a trick (that perhaps everyone has been doing forever – I dunno) which might also be useful […]
As those of you with an interest in such things may know, I recently packed up my ruck sack and trundled over to Paris to work at a very cool French company – making some snazzy web apps, mobile apps, and a fantastic application framework. One of the mobile web apps required a scrolling area […]