Via Stuart Colville I got a URL that uses a sneaky trick to see where you have been surfing. Jeremiah Grossman shows how you can check for visited sites. The common complaint of developers who don’t see the security and privacy issues with that is that you can read out the history of the window […]

Being bored yesterday night, I thought that it would be really cool to have a flickr badge that can be navigated (x pictures forward and backward), has a preview in middle size mode (lightbox style) and is generally nicely unobtrusive. I cobbled together some code (dirty at times) and came up with this: Unobtrusive Dynamic […]

The August issue of Practial Web Design is out and features an article of mine about creating plugins for Yahoo Messenger.

When I was creating a proof of concept the other day about how to create ‘more content’ links with JavaScript and the YUI I stumbled across an interesting problem with the YUI Event utility. The Event Utility is IMHO the cat’s pajamas as it solves a lot of issues the tried and true addEvent didn’t: […]

I have my personal “Walk Like a Pirate Day” today. Somehow I managed to strain my knee on Friday and Saturday it felt bad but Sunday it felt terrible. One hour waiting in the NHS Centre later I got the amazing advice to “take some pain pills and we’ll see how it is on Friday. […]