July 2006
Big Red Angry Text Ever build a slick, accessible content management system capable of producing pristine semantic XHTML only to see it filled with <font> tags? This cute trick gives the users... Read More
I must say that ASP.NET Atlas, Microsoft’s free Ajax framework is pretty cool. Far and away my favorite feature is that it allows me, a Javascript challenged C# head, to build really slick,... Read More
Had a free weekend to burn so rather than doing something sensible, like enjoying the great weather, decided to check out Second Life from Linden Labs, which has been popping up on more and more... Read More
So there I was looking for to put a name to the implementor this JScript “feature” and it seems Microsoft have come up with a better solution. ;) GA_googleFillSlot("Edit_300x100_C");... Read More
ClickTale Neat service, currently in closed beta, allows you to watch movies of your visitors’ interactions with your web site. (tags: design) Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 With anti-phishing,... Read More
SEOMoz.org has developed a fantastic tool that calculates something they call “Page Strength” which can be used in to gauge the importance and visibility of any Website or Webpage. I... Read More
This just in: Microsoft Virtual PC is now free! Now, you might ask, how does this help me as a developer? Well, let me count the ways: It lets one much more easily replicate the production... Read More
Oops! AdSense fails to track conversions for Google Pack referrals Google pledges to reimburse affected publishers. (tags: google advertising) Turbo-charging xmlrpc Nice tutorial showing how to... Read More
By default Rails logs all your POST parameters in both development and production. If you are accepting credit card numbers, passwords or other sensitive information then all this data will end up in... Read More
Memory Leak Patterns in Internet Explorer An interesting MSDN article about how memory leaks come about in IE and its JavaScript engine. (tags: ie javascript) JSON, Ajax, and UTF8 A nice summary of... Read More
CakePHP is a mature framework for PHP developers who want the structure and time-saving benefits of Ruby on Rails, without having to leave their comfort zone. As Fabio explains, CakePHP's scaffolding... Read More
The last blog post talked about the importance of failure. There are two mindsets that makes failure acceptable and bearable, and they are non-judgment and non-attachment. Both of these mindsets mean... Read More
Roy Osherove has created a handy tool, Regulazy, which allows one to create simple regular expressions using a point and click interface.Read More
By request, I’ll give you a quick rundown on how to develop against the latest version of Rails. Why would you want to do this? You might be working on a brand new app that’ll be in... Read More
