Archive for the 'Javascript' category

24 Ways Advent 2007

Posted on December 13th, 2007 in Javascript, Web Design, Web Development, miscellaneous with 2 comments

24 Ways to impress your friends, assuming they’re web design dorks of one form or another. And I mean that in a good way. Happy Holidays!.

Google Chart API

Posted on December 6th, 2007 in Javascript, Programming, miscellaneous with 1 comment

nice. update: Doesn’t take the Rails folks long.

Practical Web Site Optimization

Posted on December 3rd, 2007 in Javascript, Programming, Web Development with no comments

For some reason, I tend to forget that the folks at Sitepoint blog with some frequency alongside their publishing business. I suppose its because, like most of their book titles, I’m not terribly intrigued by their somewhat basic or generic content, probably because its not even really aimed at folks like me. Anyway, preamble aside, [...]

A Ruby Alternative to Rails

Posted on November 18th, 2007 in Javascript, Programming, Rails, Web Development with no comments

Could be a nice full stack if development moves forward on all fronts. I definitely like all three choices: Merb, DataMapper and JQuery. However, opinionated software aside, I’m not I sure really always agree with limiting choices in a stack and prefer Merb’s built-in ORM agnosticism. I haven’t checked out Sinatra or Camping yet, but [...]