Sadly, as a web developer, I spend a lot of time designing, coding and testing web applications in several browsers to make sure that I can get the product to as many users as possible. Internet Explorer is always the one that causes me the most headache, hands down. Queness has an excellent post detailing [...]
Lessn is a quick and dirty URL shortener web application from Fever and Mint developer, Shaun Inman. Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL and mod_rewrite Shaun uses Lessn instead of popular URL shortening services available today, such as bit.ly. Shaun has posted a short piece about configuring Tweetie2 [...]
The Cappuccino blog has an excellent post on recursion limitations on the global “window” host object provided by all browsers, including a few attempts to get around this limitation in the Cappuccino framework and the final solution the project has settled on. It’s a great technical read and look into the mess that is Javascript: [...]
I’m really excited to announce that my first iPhone application, That’s What She Said Jokes, wil soon be available on the iTunes App Store! From the App Store description: That’s What She Said Jokes is the perfect companion for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Browse both user submitted and featured scenarios focusing on That’s What [...]
EMKeychain is a Cocoa class-wrapper for viewing and modifying the Mac OS X Keychain. Very simple interface and would be a great addition to any developer’s toolkit. From ExtendedMac Software: EMKeychain v1.0 is now available. With it comes the following changes: Re-written for Objective-C 2.0 features, like properties. Ability to remove a keychain item. Streamlined [...]
In a win for everyone the world over, Google announced it was no longer supporting Internet Explorer 6 on Friday January 29th, 2010. By no longer providing support for production products and in the development process, Google will free up more resources to innovate and provide better experiences for users. As a developer of mostly [...]
Facebook has just taken PHP to an entirely new level: One common way to address these inefficiencies is to rewrite the more complex parts of your PHP application directly in C++ as PHP Extensions. This largely transforms PHP into a glue language between your front end HTML and application logic in C++. From a technical [...]
HTML5 brings a <video> tag to HTML, hoping to make video an open web standard that all browsers will natively support, just like the <img> tag currently used. As a bonus, this should eliminate the need of using Adobe Flash for displaying video on websites. The guys over at Jilion have announced a highly experimental [...]
Flash on iPhone is now a possibility. Sort of. The Gordon JS library aims to provide a javascript interpreter to replace the Adobe Flash runtime. The advantage is existing Adobe Flash documents will bypass the Flash runtime itself (which is what is banned from the AppStore) and instead directly execute through Javascript, which is allowed. As [...]
If you’ve ever used NSAlert in your Cocoa application and wondered why NSInformationalAlertStyle and NSWarningAlertStyle looked exactly the same when using NSAlert, you’re not the only one. CLAlert has been released (MIT license) that uses an information bubble for NSInformationalAlertStyle, caution icon (currently NSCriticalAlertStyle) for NSWarningAlertStyle, and a red stop sign for NSCriticalAlertStyle. Makes much more sense [...]