Category Archives: Web Development

Node-YQL

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Derek

The more I play around with Node.js, the more I love server-side JavaScript. Once you get over the weirdness of writing JavaScript outside of the browser, it feels very natural. And the bonus is that it is blazing fast. Also, … Continue reading →

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jsFiddle: A JavaScript playground

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Derek

Ajaxian had a story yesterday about a brand-new JavaScript playground called jsFiddle. A write and execute web-based JavaScript IDE is nothing new, but this is much, much more than that. The real power of jsFiddle is that you have the … Continue reading →

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On: Programmable Twitter Clients

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Derek

Loic Lemuer (CEO of Seesmic) recently announced at Microsoft’s Developer Conference that he’ll be releasing a new version of Seesmic that supports plugins. This is huge for developers, as well as users. Up until now the Twitter developer ecosystem has … Continue reading →

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PHP: A Better Random String Function

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Derek

Often times you’ll come across the need to generate a random string. When you search for something like “PHP random string function” which will probably just be cut & pasted into your code, you’ll typically find something like this function: … Continue reading →

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Dynamic function names in JavaScript

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Derek

If you are doing some more advanced JavaScript applications, you’ll likely run into the problem at one point or another when you need to dynamically generate the name of a function you wish to call. This is the equivalent of … Continue reading →

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Opacity supports “Export to Canvas”

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Derek

Looks like I may be able to soon replace Adobe Fireworks as my image editing tool of choice for the web. Ajaxian recently featured a new tool called Opacity, and if you follow through to their website, you’ll find a … Continue reading →

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The Reason RSS Cloud Can Work Now

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Derek

Rogers Cadenhead recently wrote a post “The Reason RSS Cloud Failed to Catch On“. In this he argues that RSS Cloud is not sustainable when it begins to scale to thousands of users needing to receive pings every time a … Continue reading →

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Cloud Enabled

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Derek

Today WordPress.com announced RSS Cloud support for all their hosted blogs. Not to be left out of the party, I also installed the RSS Cloud plugin on this blog. RSS Cloud is an ancient RSS element (in web 2.0 years) … Continue reading →

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Auto-versioning JavaScript & CSS files

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Derek

As JavaScript becomes a more integral part to the core functionality of websites, ensuring that a user has a fresh copy of the latest code is as important as ever. Normally a browser will cache certain filetypes (CSS, JS, JPG, … Continue reading →

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Upcoming events for Kansas City developers/designers

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Derek

I’m involved with organizing two upcoming events in the Kansas City area for web developer/designers. PreDevCamp – Kansas City This is an event we just announced today that will be a “bootcamp” for developing on Palm’s new Mojo SDK platform, … Continue reading →

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