I very much enjoyed attending @media2006 over the last two days and network, hear some good stuff, meet some people again I met last year, take embarrassing pictures and much much more. The topics discussed and presented were much more diverse than last year, where it was a bit of “preaching to the choir”, I […]

I had some issues with one of the code examples for the upcoming book. MSIE has a very annoying bug that when you use an opacity animation – for example with YUI or jQuery: When the element you want to fade in our out has no background colour, MSIE messes up the font for some […]

It seems that there is a new trend for Question and Answer systems on the web. It might be that mailing lists, forums and other “old school” knowledge systems appear too boring / complex / slow and we want information and answers a lot quicker or properly channeled to us or to the issue itself. […]

It is great if a company offers their data to developers to use on their own sites. It is even better when it is pretty painless to embed this data into your own products. Nearly all of the Yahoo! services also offer a REST API to use results of searches in your own web sites […]

Dude, check this out This does not throw a syntax error. First one to see through my crazy trick can take a cookie from the jar in the kitchen! The cookie goes to Matthew (check the comments). Explanation: You can set labels in JavaScript (as explained in an earlier post) by adding a colon to […]