I've seen the MF people talk and have heard my own fair share of MF evangelism, yet haven't done anything about it fearing the gains aren't really worth the hassle. Does anyone use this? BTW, from their website: "microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwin...
Apologies this question could be interpreted as a question not to ask but an impending project has lead me to this. When you ( as in a developers / designer ) first encounter a task / project do you not find yourselves mini solving it as it unravels ( either read or spoken )?(1) If so are your thoughts in "a programming language?" If ...
Given a list of locations such as <td>El Cerrito, CA</td> <td>Corvallis, OR</td> <td>Morganton, NC</td> <td>New York, NY</td> <td>San Diego, CA</td> What's the easiest way to generate a Google Map with pushpins for each location? ...
MooTools/Cappuccino/SproutCore/Django/RubyOnRails/Pylons/jQuery/etc Help, too many buzzwords out there. I spend more time reading about them than actually having time to learn and use them...what to do? ...
I would like to programmatically create a gloss effect on an Image, kinda like on the Apple-inspired design that the Web has adopted when it was updated to 2.0 Beta. Essentially this: Now, I see two approaches here: I create one image which has an Alpha channel with the gloss effect, and then I just combine the input and the gloss al...
Are there any favorite online references or good introductory and intermediate/advanced books on this topic that you could recommend to me? I'm a java developer, so I'm looking for something which would be familiar as possible as to me. ...
I have implemented hAtom microformat on my blog. At least, I think I have, but I can't find any validator (or any software that uses hAtom) in order to determine if I have done this correctly. A Google search for "hatom validator" currently doesn't return anything useful. Does anyone know of a way to confirm that it is implemented cor...
Where is a good place to get started learning how to use jQuery? It seems to be all the rage nowadays, and I want be in on whatever the cool kids are doing. I know some basics of Javascript but I'm by no means an expert. ...
I searched the Web, but the most I was able to find was 180x180 pixels. I'm looking for a ajax loader .gif animation that is at least 400x400 pixels. File size is not very important, it's for intranet application. UPDATE: solution must be free as in beer. I don't own a copy of Photoshop, for example. ...
I'm writing a specification document for a whizz-bang Web 2.0 application, and I want to make sure that the client is not mislead into thinking that the jQuery animation / AJAX bits will be smooth for any visitor on their dodgy old DX-66. I considered taking the Firefox 3 requirements (Pentium 500MHz, 128MB RAM) but that isn't going to ...
Hi, I'm building a site which will have a 'Login/Register' link on every page. Whenever someone clicks this link, I want a javascript/div based signup form to float ontop of the content with a link to 'close' it if they want. I also want the capability of the div showing up near the position of their mouse, i.e so if they click the lin...
I'm making a webpage with dynamic content that enters the view with AJAX polling. The page JS occasionally downloads updated information and renders it on the page while the user is reading other information. This sort of thing is costly to bandwidth and processing time. I would like to have the polling pause when the page is not bein...
I'm looking for a tutorial or some reusable resources that I can use to give my application a more modern look and feel. For want of a better description, I'm aiming for a simple and uncluttered web2.0 / ajaxy look. edit: emphasis on simple and uncluttered - something stripped down and functional Ideally I am looking for something quick...
Maybe the question is a little confusing. I will like to implement tags (similar to what is used in stackoverflow) in my web application. I will like to take a peak in any documentation, framework or schema made to be able to implement a tag strategy. I can think of many ways of programmatically implement this, but since there are...
I've got a product something like a SEO analyser in a more enterprise level. Target is mostly medium to big sized companies. Which business model is better? SaaS (Software as a Service) or classical desktop application. SaaS comes with some great advantages such as : Easier to update the backend system (quick fixes, UI changes, inst...
I need to serve audio content (not music though, more like podcasts; human speech), and I'm thinking of using a flash-based player to let users hear the content without having to download it. I need a free embeddable flash based mp3 player. Any suggestions? Because it's not music, I don't care about playlist (I don't want them, they wi...
I'm trying to take a given URL entered by user and determine if the URL is pointing to a image or a video. Example use case. When a user paste in the URL of a youtube video, on save the page will auto display the embedded Youtube player. When a user poaste int he URL of a picture in flickr, on save, the page will auto display a small...
In short, why use something like http://stackoverflow.com/badges/6/supporter instead of something "simpler" (and subjectively, at that) like http://stackoverflow.com/badges/6/. Even on my own site I've just been using /post/6/ to reference posts (by IDs, even though I still store a slug.) Instead of /post/6/small-rant-on-urls, and in so...
I've tried RSS feeds, but these always-updating sites that have tons of entries per day just fill up my poor reader. I do keep my Google Reader, I monitor quite a few feeds, but they are all (with the exception of Lifehacker and icanhascheezburger) feeds that have at most one or two entries per day. Right now, I keep a bookmark in my to...
When is it appropriate to use AJAX? what are the pros and cons of using AJAX? In response to my last question: some people seemed very adamant that I should only use AJAX if the situation was appropriate: Should I add AJAX logic to my PHP classes/scripts? In response to Chad Birch's answer: Yes, I'm referring to when developing a "stan...