This is my first website ... after 15 years of making them for everyone else! Hope you enjoy it too.
This is only a quickie, but important enough to spread the word (oh, btw IE blows!)
In all versions of Internet Explroer (IE 5,6,7,8 apparently), the browser silently creates an immutable global variable for every element ID. This can lead to naming clashes when using jquery.
For example, I had the following code:
startDate = $(’#startDate’);
Here the DOM [...]
About 4 months ago I was wondering how hard it would be to get Sphinx to work in Japanese. This fantastic freetext search engine by Andrew Aksyonoff has literally changed my approach to web development.
At the time there were instructions for Chinese, but no Japanese unicode character map. Basically, Sphinx needs a “guide” to read [...]
Mashables has released a custom iPhone App to view their posts, tweets and events on the go. Despite the title of this post, overall it is a great little app, and potentially much better than browsing through the normal browser. Unfortunately it is still in need of some “polish” to make it really sparkle!
PROS:
The RSS [...]
Having used the iPhone 3G since August 2008, I am definitely a fan (fanboy?) I am currently addicted to Tap Tap Revenge 2, and I probably spend most of my traveling time glued to mobile Safari. However, since the iPhone 2.0 upgrade, I have noticed that only people who don’t ride subways could possibly have [...]