Category Archives: Reviews
20000 Leagues Under the API: YouTube JavaScript
Today, children, we’ll be exploring the wonderful world of the official JavaScript API published by YouTube a few weeks ago. I read a few interesting posts on the subject when it first came out, and it’s been on my list of things to explore for the next (and hopefully last) version of Alarmd. This isn’t [...]
Also posted in CSS, JavaScript Tagged Youtube
Code Like the Big Boys: Flickr
Code like the Big Boys is a series of posts about code solutions used by major websites. What can we learn from these professional websites to use in our own code? JavaScript Looking at the source code of the Flickr home page is actually pretty strange. For one, there is only one JavaScript source code [...]
Also posted in CSS, JavaScript Tagged Flickr, PNG
Online Movie Rental Review – Amazon Unbox
Renting movies online. Steve Jobs was hilariously excited about his new Apple TV product and being able to rent movies online and stream them directly to your television. So, with all this movie-watching titillation, I decided to check out if the hubbub was actually worthy of my attention. Turns out, not so much. Prior to [...]
Obscurity, Security, and Captcha
On Ajaxian recently, there have been a few posts touting new and inventive replacements for the more traditional distorted and discolored “What does this image say?” Captcha gatekeeper for your web form. Of course these are all intended to provide a mechanism to tell the difference between an automated web bot that is spamming your [...]
Why Do Fame-Based Bloggers Act Like Children?
Normally this blog is about JavaScript and front-end engineering, but today I’m going to play my once per six month rant-card and go on for a bit, so please bear with me. You can read my last rant-card here. Ever open up your RSS reader only to be greeted with a collection of posts that [...]
What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools.
Frameworks, Frameworks everywhere. There are the big six: Dojo, jQuery, prototype/scriptaculous, Ext, Mootools, and YUI. (Honorable meantion to Open Rico and Mochikit) I’ve had limited experience with all of these frameworks, but have actually worked on projects involving YUI and jQuery. So when I was shopping around for a framework that I didn’t have extensive [...]
Also posted in JavaScript Tagged Mootools
Twitter is Polluting the Search Space.
I don’t have a problem with Twitter. I can ignore the “internet enthusiasts” that go crazy over a simple CRUD/database entertainment website, thinly veild as the next big social evolution of the internet. I can’t help but feel that this is just a text-based version of the web-cam phase that the internet went through approximately [...]
Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web