Archive for the 'General' Category



Ever since I watched this year’s MacWorld keynote, I (like most geeks) was completely captivated by the iPhone and its apparent endless feature set. However, the one “why hasn’t anyone done that yet?” feature that stuck out for me was visual voicemail. I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t even thought of it. For some reason, […]

Dancing Around The DOM

Whenever I’m coding a site, I spend a lot of time in the DOM. For some odd reason, I tend look up the built-in JavaScript methods the most. For instance, I can never remember the parentNode method name. Lucky for me, I don’t have to anymore thanks to to Prototype. As of v1.5.0_rc1, Prototype […]

Spying On Digg Spy

So by now I’m sure anyone reading here knows I’m a HUGE fan of all things AJAX. That being said the true love I have is for those who use it to make their sites/apps have that extra special touch. Digg Spy is a great example of this.
For those of you who may not know, […]

How NOT To Use AJAX

AJAX. It is an awesome technology ushering in a whole new generation of web applications like Google maps, Backpack and others. But AJAX can also be a very dangerous technology for those who use it improperly.
For this reason, I’ve compiled a list of the many common mistakes developers using AJAX sometimes make. Javascript itself […]

Ten CSS Tips For Beginners

Every now and then I see people using some pretty silly css code. That’s why I decided to put together this little collection of tips for people who could probably use some advice on how to use css the proper way. This is by no means definitive or complete. It is also surely not perfect, […]

Fox News, Fox Schmews

I just can’t sit here and stay quiet about this any more. I’ve been reading around the interweb about Fox News a lot lately, and what I’ve discovered, may shock and not surprise you. Check out this page on The Huffington Post. It clearly depicts a Fox News INTERNAL memo stating:

“Be On The Lookout […]

Color Me Jealous

I have a new favorite company. ColorwarePC is amazing. They’ve also recently announced support for the Sidekick 3. For those not in the know, Colorware has long been known for their stunning paint jobs on many consumer electronics. The process is simple, you place an order on their site (designing how you’d like your device […]

Wow. I never would have guessed that posting links to mp3 files on my website would be such a bad idea. I just discovered I was basically wasting about 5 GB’s of bandwidth a day. The culprit? Crazy little hot-linking teenagers. I just checked my logs (for the first time in way too long) and […]

Late Night’ Lurkin’

Ok, so this Myspace thing. Its pretty popular. The kids, they love it. The adults, they want to be the kids so they love it. But what about those people who hold a special place in all our hearts? There’s quite of few of us out there who would love to get a deeper view […]

The Windows Vista Post

So I’m about to install Windows Vista for the first time in the long history of betas. I’ve been following the release cycle closely, but I honestly haven’t cared enough until now to give it a try. I’ve been living in OS X Heaven for the past few months. I do all of my work […]