February 2008 has been a whirlwind. Started off by going up to SF to work with Adaptive Path every Monday for four weeks where I got to brainstorm with Jesse James Garret and had lunch with Peter Merholz and a bunch of other people from AP. So that sort of set the stage for this […]
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
JavaScript: Defining console.log for IE
Friday, February 29, 2008
Front-end web development these days centers around one tool: Firebug. So we go merrily building away in Firefox, and then it comes time to debug in IE, and we’re screwed. Short of installing Firebug Lite (which I have future plans of doing, on demand via Mootools.Asset), but short of that, here’s a little code snippet […]
Podcasts
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
About a month ago iTunes decided that it would be fun to drop all of my podcast subscriptions. I think I’ve remembered all of them, although it wasn’t until last weekend that I caught a Carl Kasell reference on Car Talk and remembered Wait Wait (never mind that he’s the one reading my morning news […]
Snappy JavaScript Animation
Sunday, February 24, 2008
All JavaScript animation should be this fast: Zipline Interactive.
…Looks like it’s Mootools. Not surprised. The more I use the library the more I’m impressed. It’s so powerful, and the syntax is so elegant. I’ve been writing a developer’s guide at work, have to see if some of it can’t be made available to the wider […]
The IE7 auto-rollout: fact and fiction
Saturday, February 23, 2008
I’ve been hearing rumors about an IE7 push. Unfortunately it’s mostly just rumors, the only people rightfully forced to upgrade are those poor saps working in tightly controlled business environments. Still need to find some current stats on browser distribution to see what kind of effect it had.
Link: The IE7 auto-rollout: fact and fiction
No More Texas Sex Toys Ban
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
link: Federal appeals court overturns Texas sex toys ban
A sign of change for the better. Between this and the way the democratic primaries are going, there is hope for the country.
Mootools for Citysearch
Friday, February 8, 2008
Over at Citysearch, I’m going to be dropping the existing JavaScript library, which tries too hard to make JavaScript like Java, and switching over to using mostly mootools. It’s light weight, has everything I might need from Array and String functions to Ajax and Animation, excellent documentation, and an active community building handy stuff like […]
UE Celebrity Moment
Monday, February 4, 2008
Jesse James Garret joined our discussion about bringing community to Citysearch. He had some particularly cogent things to say about the need to marry utility for the individual and contribution to the community, citing del.icio.us as an example of this.