March 2006
March 3, 2006
Yahoo! Hub Korea. Korean tag clouds are really pretty.
March 7, 2006
My ETech JavaScript tutorial
I gave a three hour JavaScript tutorial at ETech this morning, aimed at people with previous programming experience who hadn’t yet dived deep in to JavaScript as a programming language. It seemed to go pretty well—some good questions were asked at various points and a few people told me afterwards that they had found it interesting.
[... 247 words]Introduction to JavaScript (ETech 2006 Tutorial). Phil Windley’s extensive notes from my tutorial.
March 8, 2006
Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility. Great explanation of the cool stuff in YAHOO.util.Event.
Universal Encoding Detector. Character encoding auto-detection in Python, ported from Mozilla.
March 9, 2006
Checkmates (via) Really neat Yahoo! mobile demo released at ETech.
March 20, 2006
Activating ActiveX Controls (via) MS advice on getting around the Eolas thing. Their JS code is nasty though.
Lighty Rocks My PHP/MySQL World. Matt Croyden reports that Lighty + PHP + FastCGI is lightning fast.
March 21, 2006
Atom as a Case Study. Notes from one of my favourite talks at ETech.
Form Hijack (via) Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick—use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded.
March 22, 2006
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? Great essay from danah. MySpace finally makes a bit of sense to me.
Amazon S3. Game changing.
BitBucket—Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python (via) Nice pythonic API.
Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3. 25 lines of Python.
March 27, 2006
Styles: Beyond WS and REST. Tim clarifies a bunch of stuff relating to WS-* and REST.
Blown away (again) by Hack Day. Hack Day rocks.
March 28, 2006
Hex Fiend. Hex editor for OS X. I could have done with this a few weeks ago.
March 29, 2006
Xara (vector graphics programme) goes Open Source. This could be a really big deal.
March 30, 2006
Learning Flash for programmers?
I’ve decided it’s about time I learnt some Flash, mainly because of the exciting opportunities posed by the Flash-JavaScript bridge. It’s become pretty obvious now that Flash is the most practical option for dealing with audio and video on the Web, and the bridge means that anything Flash can do is now available to JavaScript as well. Google Finance and the Yahoo! JS-Flash Maps API are just two recent examples of why this stuff is worth knowing more about.
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