Google is great, it’s a fact.
Today they have launched an Ajax Library API. They are hosting the major Javascript Libraries (Jquery, dojo etc), and are providing a nice API to load them in, pick your version number etc.
They also serve it over a content delivery network, which means when a user requests the library file [...]
Category Archives: Cool stuff
CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please
May 27, 2008 – 5:20 pm
The Monkey is back…
May 20, 2008 – 8:16 am
Back in the day when the internet was full of geeks and Americans you could learn how to design “phat” websites using frames and tables, make animated gifs that inform your users that your site is under construction and even load in music to entertain your website visitors from a web site called Webmonkey.com.
It got [...]
Computer art action timelapsed
May 19, 2008 – 12:14 pm
More timelapse goodness. This time, a chap who spent 40 hours creating some vector art in Illustrator timelapsed a screen capture of it.
http://www.vimeo.com/927062
Very cool. If we timelapsed a day of web development would it be at all interesting? Probably not.
You can buy a print of the work.
UPDATED: Here is a day of web development timelapsed [...]
That’s my kind of town….
April 24, 2008 – 9:15 am
For a nice warm up to Daves 80s style 30th Birthday party at the weekend how about listening to “Telly Savalas and the Quota Quickies” on Radio 4 at 10:30am. (April 26th).
The bizarre story of how three British cities in the late 1970s tried to make themselves appear exciting to a cinema audience, recruiting Kojak [...]
wii love the iplayer
April 15, 2008 – 10:56 pm
The BBC have got their iplayer working on the wii. Or at least have started shouting about it.
This is great news if, like me, you’re a bit fed up of watching again on a tiny laptop screen. Once you’ve downloaded the Internet channel (opera browser) for £3.50 and figured out that you can zoom [...]
Gizmodo posts story about Mr T and then randomly uses him to edit some posts
April 1, 2008 – 12:36 pm
Quit your jibber jabber! (some swear words). As John points out, it’s perhaps all about pitying the fool.
Cool wall
March 19, 2008 – 3:42 pm
I’m partial to a spot of climbing and I would love to try out this wall as featured in Dezeen (spotted in the Brasher blog). But remember folks, climbing in socks (and suits) is not the best idea.
Don’t let them take my home!
February 27, 2008 – 10:14 am
This pile of boxes has been sat inside the main door of our building for a while. It looks like someone moved in and now they’re facing eviction.
We’ll keep you posted…