Archive for October, 2007

Your MP – Google Desktop Gadget

I was playing around with the Google Desktop Search API again at the weekend and threw together a gadget that queries the TheyWorkForYou.com UK MP database. It basically enables you to gather all sorts of interesting info about various MPs, Peers, debates and committees. This gadget is just a simple interface so you can enter [...]

More Great Videos: YUI Theatre

Inline with a previous post about the Google Tech talks I thought I’d mention Yahoo’s Javascript focused selection over at the YUI Theatre. With over 17 screencasts from the likes of John Resig, Grady Booch and Douglas Crockford its a great resource for everyone. Tags: video, javascript, ajax

‘Newbies’ First 2 Months

I so wanted to avoid using that horrendous ‘N’ word in any part of my blog but I needed something short for the title. Anyway – TAW made an interesting post on his first 2 months on Rails and I sympathise with many of his points but for a different reason. Most of the issues [...]

Top 9 Icon Resources

As a developer the design of an applications interface can often take a second peg to the function-guts. I always like to have a dig around a selection of good icon sets though to spruce up my interfaces and these are six of those resources: Search Engines Iconlet – One of the two major icon [...]