0I have a guilty pleasure. I like to game occasionally. Not a lot, mind you; I have zero spare time. But occasionally, when I’m waiting for something, I might pick up my iPad and play a game. In particular, I like this game where you … well, I won’t tell you exactly what the game [...]
0There was a time — not that long ago, really — when I was the up-and-coming kid in the office. I was young, I was hip, I was on top of everything new. I was the one who, in 1995, went to the people running the interactive agency where I was working and said, “You [...]
0As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve decided to use the Agile methodology Scrum for the NoTooMi project. It’s lightweight, and still enables me to do the design I need, without having to resort to tons of extra documentation just to keep with an arbitrary methodology. So the question remains, what is Scrum? I [...]
0Well, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the “theory” posts are going to have to wait until the weekend, and the “implementation” posts will fill out the week. So today, tomorrow, and Friday, we’ll talk about how to add functionality to a WordPress blog. In this case, the functionality we want is the ability to show [...]
0As part of cleaning up the blog for the Year Of Living Socially, I really want to clear up the amount of spam I have to deal with. Once I installed the blog as it’s current address, I immediately started getting comment spam. It’s not bad yet — just a dozen or so comments a [...]
0JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is being used more and more for Ajax requests because it makes parsing the results pretty straightforward. In my case, I came across a need to build and parse JSON objects from Java. Fortunately, it’s pretty simple. There are a ton of implementations listed at Json.org, but I don’t have [...]
0One of my clients was mentioning to me a huge newspaper archive that he was getting ready to put online. What he was doing with the search — trying to provide access to a huge amount of data with very good throughput speeds, all available on the web — sounded like something that the Apache [...]
0As you may have noticed, I’ve got a poll over there on the left that lists some topics I might write tutorials about. I’ve been doing a ton of jQuery work lately, so I thought I might put that on the list, but there is apparently a ton of good material out there already. Specifically, [...]
0Today I was introduced to an incredibly handy plugin for jQuery called Boxy. You know those Facebook-type modal dialogues that pop up on a web page and grey-out everything else? Well, Boxy lets you do that with one simple Javascript command, as in: $(‘.boxy’).boxy(); It includes all sorts of options as well, including a handy [...]
0A Consuming Experience reports that a Dutch court has upheld a CreativeCommons license in the case of the tabloid that republished photos of Adam Curry’s children that had been posted on Flikr. The photos had been tagged with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license, and the judge ruled that this overrode the tabloid’s argument that Flikr [...]