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14th October 2008, AjaxComments Off
La Liga Loca
Notes from the crazy world of Spanish football.
Tags: football sport spain loco
1000th download!
4th September 2007, Ajax, MySQL, PHP, Technology0 Comments
Yay. Feels like a little landmark for me. The GoogleMapDirectory for Vanilla finally reached a thousand downloads today. It’s not massive, but for a wee little plugin, I think it’s done OK.
It still has some way to go, the database layer is still far from perfect and Vanilla sites that use friendly URL’s seem to be having a few problems, but that aside, this has given me a lovely little warm glow inside.
Ahhh.
Is this really where we’re heading?
9th January 2007, Ajax, Trends0 Comments
Now, I’m sure this has been very well coded and executed, but who the on earth needs an Ajax app mixing Tag clouds with To Do lists? Its so inane I almost couldn’t write this post for lack of words to describe it.
No offence intended to whoever has toiled over this but I’ve always found online to-do lists oxymoronic. I’m pretty sure by the time you’ve created your account, logged in, written up your list and then cleverly tagged them all, then waded through your tag cloud to find the damn task again, you could have just gone and done it.
Rustic Ajax
29th December 2006, Ajax, Trends0 Comments
I took some time out these holidays to get to know JSON, MooTools & Dojo better. What i realised quite quickly is that despite the enormous hype these things are receiving, like Prototype, apart from the draggable effects stuff, most of it I’d already rolled out in apps using my simple knowledge of javascript and browser DOMs. Clumsier no doubt, and not particularly easily reusable, but it worked and was quick, as i’d only written code I needed, instead of downloading an entire library of functions and severly under utilising it.
Its like making a homemade pie, rather than buying that Sarah Lee. So in true Web2.0 style, i’m coming out quick and coining a trendy new phrase: Rustic Ajax. Not perfect, a little burnt around the edges but satisfying when it comes out the oven and tastes far better for it.
Ajax saved my life!
13th September 2006, Ajax, Other, Trends0 Comments
Now, I’m enjoying emerging trends of the web as much as the next coder out there, but this morning something really got on my nerves. It was on the BBC breakfast, they’re basically taking a cutting edge internet theme each morning for 10 minutes and explaining it out in a non web-savvy manner for their audience. This, in general, I think is a good thing. There I am thinking my Dad could do with watching it.
Problem is they had an American Internet Entrepreneur on today. First thing that came out of his mouth? “Exciting things are happening everywhere - Ajax is a great new component that makes things like mySpace possible, they wouldn’t exist without it.”
Now I may be paraphrasing him, but what a tool. Don’t hyperbole when the target audience just wants a basic understanding. And his statement was simply untrue. (more…)
Internet Explorer Fails to do something
25th July 2006, Ajax, Javascript0 Comments
How many times does this happen in development? I’ve lost count. This time round, I’m working on a nifty Continent/Country/Region trio of dropdown lists where the respective parent goes all Ajaxy and populates its child dropdown list accordingly.
All working great in Firefox, but as soon as I tested in IE its all gone wrong. So what’s the reason? BUG: Internet Explorer Fails to Set the innerHTML Property of the Select Object.
What I love about Microsoft is there ability to acknowledge their bugs but instead of fixing them (if they can disable invalid copies of XP remotely, i’m sure they can tweak the DOM model in Explorer) they simply call it a bug and offer a very very poor workaround. When you then consider you’re trying to make future proof applications knowing Microsoft will abandon their crappy workaround as soon as you implement it, this all becomes rather frustrating.
Oh well. At least they spared me their splendidly deficient “This error is by design” conclusion this time. Back into the DOM I go to find the proper solution to this.
