What Kind of Web Developer Are You?

In this insightful post, Brian Reindel discusses the different disciplines typically associated with “web development.” Continue reading →

Creating an Apple Style Menu with Animation

Kriesi Budschedl has posted a very detailed tutorial to help you build your own Apple.com style menu and adds a nice touch by animating it. Continue reading →

WordPress for the iPhone

In case you haven’t heard, WordPress is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Head over to the App Store to get your free copy.

Is it Time to Backup your Mac?

Last week I visited the Apple store in hopes of buying one a Time Capsule but instead purchased an Apple TV, which is very nice and my kids love, but didn’t get anything yet for the all important backups. Continue reading →

Google Maps Component for Ext-JS

Shea Frederick has created a user-defined extension to integrate Google Maps with ExtJS. Continue reading →

“Where on Earth” Platform by Yahoo!

It is actually the newly released Yahoo! Internet Location Platform, which allows applications to share predefined location identifiers, known as WOEIDs. You can use the platform to match a WOEID to a place on earth, find parent and child relationships … Continue reading →

An In-Depth Look at Yahoo!’s Open Strategy Platform

Last week, Yahoo! unveiled its new open strategy platform. The Y!OS platform will centralize user profile and social data in one place on Yahoo! and make it available across Yahoo! properties and accessible by developers outside Yahoo!. We’re creating a … Continue reading →

Wii Remote Hacks: Johnny Lee on TED.com

Researcher Johnny Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks — bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. (Recorded March 2008 in … Continue reading →

Improving Performance by Combining Scripts and CSS

According to the Yahoo! performance team, the best way to improve your web site’s performance is to reduce the number of requests for assets such as scripts, style sheets and images. One way to accomplish this is by combining all … Continue reading →

To Love One’s Craft: Fun with grep and RegEx…

I just read an interesting post by Dave Nelson (spugbrap) in which he details all the fun he had writing a script to search through Ext JS source code and open it with Textpad. So, I checked the TextPad help … Continue reading →