September 2006
Kevin Yank is reporting from the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Australia. As expected, Jeremy Keith gave a clear and entertaining introduction to AJAX at Web Directions South, today. I... Read More
Kevin Yank is reporting from the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Australia. Kelly Goto opened the Web Directions South conference today by speaking about current goals, trends, and... Read More
Following on from the last part, this one is more of an intermission – a round up of regex syntax seen so far and a couple of links following feedback. Part 4 is here. Reads First you have to... Read More
Hotel and flights: check. Sound equipment: check. Giant posters: check. PowerPoint slides: check. Drink cards: check. XBox 360 winner selection tool: check. The SitePoint contingent for Web... Read More
So continuing the fun started here… Contents Part 2 Where we’ve been so far… Hunting for .jp(e)gs Escaping Meta Characters Search and Replace preg_quote() preg_replace() Word... Read More
Was asked recently if I knew of any good regular expressions tutorials (preferably in PHP). The question came from someone certainly smart enough to “get” regular expressions but... Read More
As you may have already noticed either on the site (or at your local respectable book merchants) our first full-color book has just hit the shelves — Corrie Haffly’s The Photoshop... Read More
DTrace Meets JavaScript DTrace is a slick and powerful profiling tool currently limited to the Solaris platform, but rumored to be coming to an operating system near you. This alpha provider hooks... Read More
It’s Time To Kill Off Transitional DOCTYPES Web accessibility experts accessites.org calls for web developers to give up their dependance on Transitional DOCTYPEs. There really is no reason to... Read More
If you haven’t used it before, the reaper script is useful for restarting your Rails application’s FastCGI dispatchers. It’s seems the reaper script in Edge rails now relies on the... Read More
Quick tip off if you’re in Switzerland (or feel like travelling) – BarCamp, the un-conference is coming to Zürich on October 28, 2006 – http://barcamp.ch/BarCampZurich. Some... Read More
Mootools JavaScript Library Released A superset of the famously tiny moo.fx library for JavaScript-powered effects, mootools adds features found in more complete libraries like Script.aculo.us.... Read More
The Catch 22 of AJAX is, for the sake of an easy life, most of the time we want to write “synchronous code” but asynchronous is the only way to avoid some rather nasty usability issues.... Read More
Live Filter: Re-inventing Search A new design pattern for search engines that revolves around progressive filtering of results, rather than a single query. The Implementation section is especially... Read More
