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WWDC 2011 Live Blogs!
It’s been 3 years since I was at Moscone Center in San Francisco for WWDC 2008. Beautiful city, awesome conference. The iPhone was still quite new, and the iPad hadn’t even been “invented” yet… Well, it’s time again for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 and there’s going to be some great new releases!
10 Placeholder Sites for Web Development
I was randomly surfing the net when I was reminded of several interesting sites that I’ve used in the past to generate random placeholder text for web applications. Here are 10 sites that I think can be useful to both web designer & developers. They help you to get a realistic idea of what the page … Continue reading →
10 Essential Foursquare Tips & Tricks
I’ve been using Foursquare for a bit over a year now, and I’ve learned a few things along the way that I thought I’d share just in case I get hit by a bus. The rules may seem a little complex, but if you use it every day, you’ll figure things out. Since my girlfriend … Continue reading →
Hot Key Equivalents between Visual Studio 2010 and Eclipse 3.6 IDEs
If you’ve found yourself “lucky” enough to be in a situation where you have to switch back and forth between Visual Studio and Eclipse environments, you may notice (and be annoyed) that the shortcut / hot keys may be a little different. You may even make a mistake once in a while.
Passing a Parameter to a JSP 2.0 Tag File
I had to do a lot of research when making my transition to JSP files from the ASP/ASPX world. I needed to know the equivalents for things that I took for granted and used on a daily basis. One of the best features of the JSP 2.0 specification that made me feel at home was … Continue reading →
Javascript Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
I wrote this page many years ago in my old blog so I’d have a quick reference to using regular expressions in my Javascript and Perl projects – It became quite popular, and then I stopped publishing my blog a year or two ago… I’ve resurrected (and updated it) for this blog, including links to … Continue reading →
Detecting IE9′s Document Mode using Javascript
I was experiencing some issues with IE9 and an HTML page – only when the browser was set to “Document Mode: IE9 standards” in the Developer Tools (F12) menu option. I had the need to do some smart detection in Javascript. Using some documentation I found on Microsoft’s MSDN site, I wrote a small Javascript … Continue reading →
Using HTML5 localStorage in Web Applications
localStorage is the W3C Web Storage API specification that allows you to store data locally in key/value pairs, using Javascript. These are stored as strings in the client’s browser without using Cookies of any kind. It is supported in all modern HTML5 browsers. This is not to be confused with the defunct W3C Web SQL … Continue reading →
jsFiddle – The Greatest Javascript Framework Test Tool Since…
If you haven’t already discovered this Web Developer’s hidden gem, you’ve got to give it a try! I’ve always meant to start using it regularly, but I always get busy with projects… JsFiddle allows you to take HTML, CSS and Javascript (and you can choose virtually ANY Javascript framework, including Mootools, jQuery and Dojo) and … Continue reading →