I’ve mentioned “spinner” on this page a bunch of times – I hope that’s what they are called… “little animated-gif indicator AJAX thingos” doesn’t sound quite right. Anyway, just thought I’d mention this “issue” I’ve noticed quite a bit with people implementing spinners like so: Load spinner image in HTML When AJAX procedure completes, use […]
Talented people. God I hate them. How dare they sit around making our meagre accomplishments look meagre? Well, they dare. They dare. Case in point: Graffiti Wall for Facebook. It provides you with a skeleton tool set – a colour picker, a brush size selector, an opacity selector, and 152592 pixels on which to use […]
Possession of low-voltage consumer electronics. A love of very noisy things. A do-it-yourself aesthetic – Do you possess these items and/or attributes? Then come join the Circuit Bending hoedown! It’s disturbing and easy! Here’s the how and why (no, actually, the how and what)… Circuit Bending is the art of messing with the electronics inside […]
3 years without even a mention of Star Wars on this nerdy blog. That is pretty impressive.
OOooh, I’m all giddy! Moments ago I discovered today’s release from Google: Google Gears. It’s like they reverse-engineered some advanced cookie technology from a crashed web-based UFO. Or something similar. I’m typing this post as I explore, so we’ll see how my opinions of it change from now to the end of the post – […]
Bug fixing web services at 8.30am on a Monday morning is not really that much fun. The first 2 coffees haven’t even started kicking in yet. And a crashing IDE doesn’t usually help the situation along either. Usually doesn’t – but the error message returned to me today has added a slight spring to my […]
Nah, I’ve got nothing.
I was getting scared there for a minute. It had been at least a few weeks since I last found something on the interweb that rocked my web-based world. Things were getting desperate, and for a moment I feared I might be forced to go back and work on one of my half-finished projects or […]
A broad introduction to the world of the Web Sequin. Web Sequins are design elements and page widgets that are shiny and tacky which utilise an existing technology in a creative, novel and terrifying new way. They ARE the Web.