I’m at SXSW, and I want an ability to see the latest Tweets from the group of Twitterers that I follow who are here in the area. I also have a limited number of text messages on my phone (1500, but still).
I coded up a quick app that allows you to great a group of [...]
Twitter rocks. It’s useful for all kinds of things, but especially for chronicling a live event as it happens, including the pre-event discussion and post-conference wrapup.
We’re very excited to be hosting NewB Camp here in Providence, RI on February 23rd. In preparation for the event, Sara created a NewBCamp Twitter account and I coded up [...]
We all have web sites with annoying features that we use regularly anyway. Greasemonkey is a Firefox (only, but it work across operating systems) extension that allows you to alter a web site - after it is loaded into your browser - with JavaScript.
For example, Twitter recently change their direct message web page to present [...]
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Ning, has a blog! Not only that, but he has a great list of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP cheat sheets.
For a cool historical snippet, see the 1993 mailing list post where Marc proposed the creation of the HTML img tag.
Today I discovered Google Browser Sync. I can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before!
Browser Sync is a Firefox extension that allows you to easily share your tabs, history, bookmarks, passwords, and cookies between computers. Yes, you do store all of this information on Google’s servers, but you can choose to encrypt it and you [...]
We all know and love the child selector hack to use one set of margins in IE6 and one set in Firefox. Naturally, IE7 came along and broke it!
If you define your margins properly and they still have extra whitespace in IE7, check to see if you are using the XHTML Transitional DTD.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC [...]
I often hear from designers and client-side developers who are interested in adding more dynamic content to their sites, but have not yet learned server-side coding skills. That’s why I think that apps like Instacomment fill an important niche! With Instacomment, you put a PHP file on your site and a JavaScript snippet in your [...]
Introduction
Swapping new images into an established layout is one trick that can keep a site design fresh. Some examples:
gettyimages
benstraw
There are several different techniques for accomplishing this effect. A server-side program is the best approach, because you can automatically pull files from a whole directory (eliminating the need to modify code), and it will work [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! In honor of the holiday, I am happy to present to you the geekiest valentine ever (click here if the popup link doesn’t work for you).
Each of these Valentine’s messages was lovingly hand-coded in the best of modern web languages, just for you.
Now, how does it work? Let’s look at the [...]