Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such. You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a different approach here and state who does what and hopefully the weight of ‘who does what’ will make the point [...]
Just finished my first Netvibes plugin. Hopefully it’ll be the first of many to come as I’ve now got the hang of the Universal Widget API (UWA) now. My first widget is mainly for UK users who take a lot of flights. Its a Lastminute.com flight checker widget so you can find the latest pricing [...]
Quick post to say my Google Gadget, YourMP, has been updated. Its now a lot more efficient, cleaner, working and just overall better. Quick rundown: MP details: Name,Constituency,Party and Expenses Optionally show MP photo next to details. Debates listing now includes the date given. You know what would be REALLY useful? Feedback! Its been broken [...]
I stumbled across a need for this while I was doing some updates to my Google Desktop Plugin (YourMP). If you’ve ever done any coding for GDS gadgets then you’ll know it uses JS. Now my documenting was pretty poor so I wanted to tidy it up and went hunting for the usual format. It [...]
Looking around for a decent Javascript gallery to use on ‘this site’ – I came across by far the most comprehensive and pleasant to use in: SmoothGallery2.0 It uses the MooTools library and has a slick interface. The only downside I’d say is that for large sets of images using a Gallery Set it can [...]
Lets skip the big comparisons here and get to brass tacks. Here’s the rapid review of Ajax frameworks: YUI -Stable and comprehensive but a little verbose. jQuery – Clean, fresh and perky but plenty of hacked, cruddy plugins to be wary of. Ext – Beautiful to look at but agonising to use. Prototype/Scriptaculous – Only [...]
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 [...]
I installed Firebug a long while back and didn’t think much of it. Granted I never read the docs or even the description. I like to just try things out and if I don’t figure it in 10 seconds flat it normally gets ignored. Unfortunately that meant I missed an absolute goldmine and looked a [...]
Firebug already comes with solid profiling built in showing times, averages and call frequency for files but Yahoo have now released a plugin for Firebug (yes Firebug) that gives even greater detail on page performance and rates it based on Yahoo’s own performance criteria.You can grab the addon from the Firefox addons site (you’ll need [...]
I remember seeing Dojo for the first time and I was hooked on the flashy gizmo’s and widgets from the off. The awkward learning curve was cast aside as I went about reading and listening to everything I could lay my hands on. After a while of using Dojo on many of my work projects [...]
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