I’ve been toiling over the idea of integrating DISQUS into my site to provide a better way to allow site visitors to comment. I’m not sure how it’s going to work out, so consider this an experiment for now.
The idea behind Disqus is that commenting becomes more interactive for readers of this site and others. [...]
Archive for May 2008
Disqus integration
Download Day 08
Download Day 2008. Pledge your involvement in helping Firefox 3 set a Guinness World Record for number of software downloads in a day. I’m in, are you?
Yahoo BrowserPlus
Yahoo BrowserPlus – “a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.” I installed it and tried running one of the sample apps in Firefox 3 RC1 and it crashed almost right away. I like the idea, though.
Top 10 Movies (meme)
I usually ignore meme’s unless I think they’d make for good content. I thank Jesse J. Anderson for tagging me. With every meme comes a set of rules:
List your top ten favorite films (in no particular order).
If you are tagged, you have to post and tag 3-5 people.
Link back to the one who tagged you.
Before [...]
Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure
Dreamweaver, Fireworks CS4 Betas Released
Fresh from the Adobe Labs comes betas for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and Adobe Fireworks CS4. It should be noted that if you’ve been using CS3, there is a new unified interface that’ll be appearing in CS4 that may take some getting used to.
Also, if you tested the Photoshop CS3 beta when it was released, I [...]
Simple Form Redirection
Recently, a friend asked if I could come up with a simple form that would allow you to enter a value into a field, hit the submit button, and have it take the user to a URL with the value they entered in the field appended to the URL. I’m not great with JavaScript, but [...]
Accountability
Accountability isn’t just weekly meetings with a ‘partner.’ [It's] having friends who’ll punch your face when you need them to. Andy Thompson
Webmonkey is Risen! The definitive web resource of yesteryear is back from the dead and better than ever.
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit – And You Should Too. “It’s a small practice with big implications: Companies don’t engage emotionally with their customers—people do. If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.” Fantastic read, really.