April 2006
Google launched their much-anticipated Google Calendar today, dubbed CL2 (in beta, of course) and I gave it a quick spin this afternoon. There have been many cries for a decent online calendaring... Read More
Tracking your site's search ranking can be a real pain ... unless you have Bernard's script, which uses the Google API to track your rank quickly and effortlessly. Here he explains, step by step, how... Read More
The World Wide Web Consortium‘s (W3C) new Web API Working Group has released a working draft of the official specification for the XMLHttpRequest object, which is at the heart of AJAX. The... Read More
The second day of Sun’s Developer Days 2006 conference in Melbourne last week was a similar mixed bag to the first. Be sure to read my coverage of day one if you missed it. Before the... Read More
By default, Rails doesn’t nuke expired sessions from your app’s storage of choice (either PStores/files or rows in a database table, usually). On my personal site, there’s just... Read More
Since I lost my best friend and business partner in December, I haven’t been the most productive man in SEO… but I am back at it, and thought readers might like to know what I’ve... Read More
A few months ago I proposed a way to efficiently use __autoload() together with a class indexer. To my surprise, quite some people started using it and provided me with bug reports. I rewrote most of... Read More
Few developers know how to use Keyframes, ActionScript, and MovieClips, and can control the Flash playhead to their advantage. Optimizing your use of these elements can help you reduce file size,... Read More
It seems that digg, the popular tech news site that relies on its community to promote links to its front page, is somewhat ruthless in its tolerance for other types of communities, in particular... Read More
Sun Microsystems is winding up a tour of Australia and New Zealand with the final stop of its Sun Developer Days 2006 conference today and tomorrow in Melbourne. Fellow SitePointer Lachlan Donald and... Read More
As fun as it is to pontificate about microformats, structured markup and the semantic web, in the past week two item have brought home to me how far the leading edge of web thinking is ahead of... Read More
Sick of the commute? Tired of working for The Man? Want to establish your own freelance consultancy? Here's the kick-start you've been waiting for! Neil and Jarvis help you assess whether you're cut... Read More
Been playing around with Zend’s framework some more and finally got annoyed enough about how exceptions are displayed to do something about it. The code at the bottom of this post just needs... Read More
So you have a great idea that you want to turn into the Next Big Thing? Well, jump aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon! The momentum that's building behind web applications means there's never been a better... Read More
