Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I recently started using a new service called CrossBrowserTesting, and it’s so incredibly awesome I felt compelled to write a review. First some background… Browser compatibility is a difficult challenge for all web designers and developers. The process of debugging HTML, CSS, or Javascript problems that only occur on specific ...
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Last week, I gave a talk at BarCamp Nashville on Leveraging Web Service APIs. Many thanks to the conference organizers who were able to move me to a session later in the day at the last minute because of a funeral that morning. For anyone who couldn’t make it to ...
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and blogs we build use WordPress. Depending on the client and the strategy, we can sometimes build twenty or more WordPress-driven ...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Skip all the talk and get the plugin! Here at Sitening, we have had the privilege of being granted access to the new MyBlogLog API while in its beta stage. As a developer primarily working with PHP, I first created a PHP wrapper class to implement all of the API ...
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there’s a third viable option for embedding Flash using JavaScript. It’s called FlashReplace and was written by Robert Nyman. ...
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
One of the best things to come from social networking and the so called Web 2.0 is the Web widget. Web widgets allow users to easily drop JavaScript code into their own website and instantly add content and features. Most Web widgets contain CSS ids and classes that allow the ...
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Mark Wubben announced on Wednesday (December 26, 2007) that sIFR was getting closer to its final release. In a message to all of the developers and beta testers, he said: Good news, I’m running out of bugs to fix. Pretty much the only thing left to do is support page ...
Friday, December 14th, 2007
The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB – the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within EC2. Here’s what they had to say: Dear AWS Developers, This is a short note to let ...
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Adobe’s new Flash Player (version 9,0,115,0) does not work with earlier versions of sIFR 2. Mark Wubben, the current maintainer of the sIFR code, sent out an alert early this morning notifying everyone on the sIFR developer list. The problem arises when a designer has specified a hover color to ...
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Occasionally the stars align and our favorite tech companies grant wishes. Today was one of those days. Not only did Apple finally fix the Leopard dock (and by fix I mean make it not butt-ugly), but Google just dropped a Gmail bombshell – IMAP support. I’ve kept a fifty dollar ...