Web developers who plan to work alone, or are already doing so have a lot of obstacles to overcome. One of which is being isolated and having no like-minded professionals to turn to for advice and feedback. I know this one all too well and have been working alone for the past 5+ years on various [...]
Google’s Soft 404′s are Inaccurate and Often Times, Outdated
Google has announced that they have implemented Soft 404′s as a way to indicate pages that appear to be 404 (page not found) but come up as 200 (Good Response). My initial reaction was that’s great news and should help me out when I forgot to include a 404 header response. So then I [...]
Lost Sucks
The “cool” thing to say is that Lost was great. When the Sopranos ended people said how great that show was too. In both cases, good shows turned into steaming piles of dog shit rather quickly. So let me take a moment to explain why Lost sucked. Most of you are too lazy to re-watch season 1 [...]
How to Create Page Load Animations Using jQuery
We have all gone to Google.com and noticed that they have a neat little animation to reveal more of their page. So let me show you how to create similar effects using jQuery and jQuery UI. We will be using the .animate effect for jQuery UI, along with FadeIn and AddClass. I’m not going to [...]
The Social Web is Using You
The term “social web” sounds great. A lot of people use social websites like facebook, digg, twitter, reddit, etc. Every year more and more social websites create buttons for websites to allow users to vote, like, digg, tweet, etc for their site. While that sounds good at first glance, after a closer look all they [...]
Directv Multi-Room DVR (Beta) Review
Directv users have wanted multi-room ability to watch their recorded shows from their dvr on other hd receivers. Well, now it’s possible. The Multi-Room DVR beta is probably already on your HD-DVR receiver. Go to your setup menu and look for “multi-room”. Before I get to how multi-room performs, I *think* the multi-room beta is only [...]
I introduce to you, a new way to rant
It occurred to me that a lot of people have things to rant about. Your first option might be to rant on twitter or facebook, but you “sort of” know those people. Those sites aren’t anonymous and you sure as heck aren’t going to waste your time creating a blog. Enter NerdRANT. NerdRANT is a [...]
The perl module DateTime could not be installed
For those of you experiencing the sporadic error “[checkperlmodules] The perl module DateTime could not be installed”, there is hope for you! Over at the cpanel forums they have a simple suggested fix that seemed to work for me. SSH to your server and type in: /scripts/perlinstaller –force List::MoreUtils Reply back with your comments if [...]
jQuery 1.3+ Autocomplete, The Newbie Guide
This is my first jQuery guide specifically for newbies who either don’t have much experience with jQuery or just need to see an example to understand it. The more examples you read, the better off you are at developing your own stuff. For those of you hoping to see jQuery UI 1.8′s autocomplete, sorry to [...]
jQuery vs Prototype, a newbies perspective
When I first started to dabble with javascript and ajax, Prototype was the only game in town that was making any headlines. So of course I used prototype with script.aculo.us . I was able to make some simple stuff, but my coding with Prototype wasn’t very elegant and it certainly wasn’t the best way to code things. [...]