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Edit-in-place with CSS and Javascript and some other cool proof-of-concept javascript bits. I like the Edit-in-place stuff that Flickr has implemented and have been thinking this is something I want to explore in my applications, where appropriate.
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So it’s my first day without a job. Well, actually, it’s my second. But Friday was spent running around buying stuff and cleaning for the party in celebration of my freedom from the chains of gainful employment. This is the first day I’ve had to really let it sink in. It feels great so far.…
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Since Google launched Gmail last year with it’s 1Gig of storage space, competing services from Yahoo and Microsoft have been scrambling to ramp up storage capacity – in Yahoo’s case from 2Mb to 1 Gig. Now, apparently in an attempt to take the wind out of their competitior’s marketing sails, Gmail is one-upping them again…
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Wow… Mark Cuban is funding Grokster’s legal battle against MGM: “It wont be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios wont sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge…
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People who are wayyyy geekier than I
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“Sajax is a tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have…
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Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps)
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There’s been loads of buzz lately surrounding a set of web technologies which Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path recently named “Ajax.” Simply put, Ajax refers to the use of Asynchronous Javascript and XML in web applications to help speed and improve user experience by reducing page loads. I got a chance to mess around…
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I’m wondering if we’re maybe seeing the beginning of the end for ColdFusion, at least as Macromedia product? My inbox has seen a few messages about the new 7.0 release of CF, most of which contain all sorts of assertions from Ben Forta (“ColdFusion Product Evangalist”) that this is the most important release in a…
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Good post (and ensuing discussion) on Mezzoblue about how Canadian sites handle Language considerations. Many, including of course all Federal Government sites and some commercial sites like Future Shop, prefer to party like it’s 1999 and opt for a Splash page, while others, like HBC choose to arbitrarily present one language by default (usually English),…