Twitter Clients Writing a Twitter client has become the new Hello, World! There are Twitter libraries in just about every major language such as PHP, Ruby, ActionScript, Python, Java, and more. The Twitter API is simple enough that you don’t need much, you can go a long way with the command line and curl. As [...]
The Browser War is flaring up once again with the release of Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a new browser based on many freely available open source components such as WebKit and Firefox. Chrome is bare bones, chromeless, browser with very little UI fluff and decoration. It is interesting to note that the UI for [...]
Just saw an interesting bit of JavaScript that allows anyone to edit the content of a web page from IE or FireFox. This is a JavaScript trick that runs on the client side and does not have any effects on the actual file on the server. With this you can change the text of a [...]
I recently picked up JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. Douglas is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! whose work with JavaScript has inspired JSON. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, he presents the best features of JavaScript that have made it ubiquitous while omitting those imperfections that have given the language its bad rap. [...]
I many 10-5 developers not working directly with ajaxified web 2.0 applications I was not able to go to the Google I/O conference. I don’t feel so bad not going since Google has just released video recordings of over 70+ technical presentations from Google I/0. Most of the technical presentations are pushing Google’s APIs such [...]
If you don’t understand Open Source licensing, don’t start an Open Source project. Keep your code! ExtJS, a JavaScript framework for building business forms, recently made big news, the bad kind, when it changed it’s license from LGPL to GPL. ExtJS started as an extension to the Yahoo! UI library. ExtJS had been in my [...]