Stuart Colville and Ed Eliot finally announced their engagement … in writing a book for Apress about coping with hair lossweb site performance to be released later this year. The URL is http://website-performance.org/ and the first killer app to use there is the CSS sprite generator that allows batch uploading of images inside zips and […]

The first three days of this week were kind of a blur to me as I was back in Germany, specifically in Cologne for the Flash Forum Konferenz 2007 meeting the creme de la creme of German Flashers and monkeying around in front of my Powerpoint. As I know not that much about Flash I […]

As you may know, I have this thing for slideshows and how to make them as unobtrusive as possible. Now, I just found some code by Adriaan Bouman in an exercise. It does the following: nextpreviousnextpreviousnextpreviousnextpreviousnextprevious There is no JavaScript involved and yet it is a slide show that works the way you think it […]

Sometimes you get across referers in your log that make you wonder why these people are not more known or their messages are not heard. Eike Pierstorff is one of those. His post about the problem with JavaScript libraries is a wonderful insight into the world of the people who use the stuff we produce […]

After I released the second version of my unobtrusive flickr badge I got pestered by my colleague Marco to create a “light version” that does neither feature the carousel functionality nor the preview of the photos. In essence, he wanted a JSON driven badge to show his flickr thumbnails. Alright then, here you go: check […]