2009-01-08T14:12:17-06:00Z http://labs.pathf.com/planet/ajax.html http://del.icio.us/dhinchcliffe#2009-01-07 2009-01-08T00:00:00-06:00Z

The User Experience of Enterprise Software Matters :: UXmatters A terrific article that explores a point that I make all the time: Enterprise software usability is truly lousy for the most part and needs to change. I do have some theories on how this will happen however.

http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1113 2009-01-07T13:48:29+00:00Z

When you want to keep an element in the same spot in the viewport no matter where on the page the user is, CSS’s fixed-positioning functionality is what you need. The CSS .element { position:fixed; top:2%; right:2%; } Above we set our element 2% from both the top and right hand side of the viewport. You can scroll [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1153 2009-01-06T14:34:56+00:00Z

Hello! I’d like to share some screenshots of the upcoming redesign with you and (hopefully) solicit some feedback. I’m not going into detail yet as to why I’ve made the changes I did, but I would like to get your thoughts. The screenies: Homepage - http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/homepage.jpg Sample Post - http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/post.jpg Don’t be shy — please [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1145 2009-01-05T13:39:01+00:00Z

My first full year has come and gone and I’d like to review a bit about the year. The Year in Numbers 350 Posts 676,378 Visits 1,319,045 Pageviews 2,825 RSS Feed Subscribers 2 Designs New Sites Script & Style - Script and Style, the front-end developer’s link sharing website, gained great momentum that carries through into today. I’m proud of the site’s [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2235 2009-01-02T09:19:14-06:00Z

I have a project that deals with JavaScript commands that anyone can author, so I decided it would be smart to take more time looking and integrating with Ubiquity which recently got another beautiful upgrade. Ubiquity really is the “other” command line of the Web (the URL bar being the first one). It gives me Quicksilver [...]

http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1140 2009-01-02T14:12:06+00:00Z

One of my customers has an insane amount of PDF and Microsoft Word DOC files on their website. It’s core to their online services so it’s not as though they’re garbage files up on the server. My customer wanted their website’s search engine (Sphider) to read these PDF files and DOC files so [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1102 2009-01-01T19:53:30+00:00Z

A new year usually brings hope of better things. It also bring expectations and wonder. Here are my (unfounded) web predictions for 2009. 1. A Javascript Framework Will Fall I believe that a javascript framework will fall in 2009. I really wouldn’t be shocked to see one go. I don’t want to [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2229 2008-12-31T11:57:01-06:00Z

I was playing with a Web application that did interesting redrawing of the layout (e.g. needed to do JavaScript magic in the onresize event). I noticed that in Firefox the event took a fair time to fire. Joel Webber (of GWT fame) has also found this and said: “Firefox and Opera do this wierd thing where they [...]

http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2233 2008-12-31T10:53:22-06:00Z

  document.write("This page should show you your twitter info if you're logged in. (If you see a login box make sure you're logged into Twitter)");   // forgive the document.write ugliness function orly(data) { document.write("Your username is "+data[0]['user']['screen_name']+""); document.write("Your real name is "+data[0]['user']['name']);   }     What is that is all it took to grab your username and even real name out of Twitter? [...]

http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1122 2008-12-31T13:53:33+00:00Z

My blog grew substantially during 2008. I gained thousands more RSS subscribers, my MooTools skills took a giant leap, and I even branched out in jQuery a little bit. That said, I feel like the blog just beginning. I’ve outlined some goals for 2009 — any feedback or requests would be appreciated. 1. [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2224 2008-12-30T17:05:19-06:00Z

Dave Thomas gave a great keynote talk at RubyConf this year titled F**k Ruby (where the term was for Fork ;). Dave is a very enjoyable presenter to listen too. He always has some of the British humour that I am of course partial too. I loved how he managed to use the Scottish term Tath: The luxuriant [...]

http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1115 2008-12-30T13:52:19+00:00Z

As different as the javascript frameworks can be, they all do just about the same thing. Still, a developer’s choice of javascript framework is a very personal decision. When choosing a framework, a developer must consider: component modularity file size community support code efficiency project needs (on a project by project basis) What framework do you prefer? [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=888 2008-12-29T13:58:14+00:00Z

Is.Gd is a URL-shortening service much like TinyURL. Using PHP’s cURL library, you can create shortened URLs on the fly with ease. The PHP //gets the data from a URL function get_isgd_url($url) { //get content $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 5; curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl='.$url); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout); $content = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); //return [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=886 2008-12-24T13:58:05+00:00Z

Since we’ve already figured out how to create TinyURL URLs remotely using PHP, we may as well create a small Ajax-enabled tiny URL creator. Using MooTools to do so is almost too easy. The XHTML (Form) URL: We need an input box where the user [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://davidwalsh.name/?p=1097 2008-12-24T01:23:20+00:00Z

One feature I heard Moo developers hinting at was the future addition of event delegation to the MooTools javascript library. MooTools Core Developer, Aaron Newton, wrote a post today about a plugin he’s created that does just that. From the article: Event delegation is a common practice where by you attach an event listener to a [...]

david http://davidwalsh.name http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3491 2008-12-23T06:34:27-06:00Z

Andrew recently got his hands on a copy of Dreamweaver CS4, and decided to check out the improved support for unobtrusive JavaScript. His report? Apart from a couple of quirks, he was pleasantly surprised.

http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2220 2008-12-22T13:11:15-06:00Z

A lot of people are talking about the interview with John Lilly that discusses the relationship between Mozilla and Google. People like to paint think black and white. Either Mozilla is Google’s poodle (Mozilla is to Google as Tony Blair was to George Bush) or there is a falling out and they hate each other. Of course, [...]

tag:mir.aculo.us,2008-12-20:11433 2008-12-20T10:42:00+00:00Z

th0fu http://ajaxian.com/?p=5465 2008-12-19T16:13:30-06:00Z

Lloyd Hilalel and the Yahoo! BrowserPlus team have released a BrowserPlus SDK which allows you to easily create your own services: We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you'll need to start extending the web using BrowserPlus. Getting started is [...]

http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1325 2008-12-19T12:35:09-06:00Z

Live from my laptop, it's Rails Source! After you've gotten the hang of Rails basics, one of the fastest ways to make the leap to black-belt Rails Warrior is to become familiar with the Rails source itself. (This remains a huge side-benefit of writing about Rails -- there's nothing like the prospect of making mistakes in [...]

tag:mir.aculo.us,2008-12-19:11429 2008-12-19T17:38:00+00:00Z

th0fu http://ajaxian.com/?p=5458 2008-12-19T11:35:05-06:00Z

Adobe has been bashed pretty hard in the past for their lack of Linux support in both Flash and AIR (deservedly so). It was a segment of the development and user market that really wanted to leverage Adobe technology but pretty much had their hands tied. It's evident that Adobe is listening as they announced [...]

http://ajaxian.com/?p=5453 2008-12-19T07:12:38-06:00Z

Mark Pilgrim has a new episode of This Week in HTML 5 that covers the onbeforeunload event. To get there, a lot happened, which Hixie explained: Someone asked for onbeforeunload, so I started fixing it. Then I found that there was some rot in the drywall. So I took down the drywall. Then [...]

http://ajaxian.com/?p=5449 2008-12-19T05:02:36-06:00Z

Joe Walker and team have announced the first RC for DWR 3.0. We asked Joe to tell us what is new: DWR now supports: varargs method overloading typed parameters binary file upload/download it has a set of new types it can marshall DWR will let you use JavaScript to implement Java interfaces (e.g. to register a Listener interface to publish changes to [...]

http://ajaxian.com/?p=5456 2008-12-19T02:30:23-06:00Z

Here is a fun one for Friday, Hallvord Steen discusses the error reports coming in for Opera 10 that are to do with the version number. That's right, it appears that a number of people use the first character as the version number, which means that Opera 10 is showing up as Opera 1: So we're busy [...]

http://ajaxian.com/?p=5398 2008-12-18T23:01:23-06:00Z

David King has created a small JavaScript library dlink that styles your links to let the user know if the link is internal, external, a subdomain, an anchor on the same page, or an email link. To setup, you can simply: PLAIN TEXT HTML:     your link filled content...