I know nothing more about Nassim Nicholas Taleb than what I read in the Sunday Times magazine this weekend : that is he’s trader, turned philosopher who makes bleak predictions on the global economy and the over efficient world we now live in.
Taleb has has a theory about Black Swans in life : things we [...]
Category Archives: Web development
Taleb : applied to web development
June 2, 2008 – 1:03 pm
PHP debugging with FireBug
May 29, 2008 – 2:15 pm
We like Firebug the javascript/dom debugger for Firefox.
Now we can debug our PHP applications using Firebug thanks to the FirePHP library.
IE Development gets easier
May 29, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Developing websites for Internet Explorer is not a fun task. Especially having to support the multitudes of different versions. Internally we use Multiple IE which tries to install IE 6 and older versions alongside the standard IE7 installation. It is a bit hit and miss and not very stable. My installation for example doesn’t let [...]
CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please
May 27, 2008 – 5:20 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
A website redesign gone wrong… and then put right
May 7, 2008 – 8:20 pm
… in my opinion. Postcode Anywhere have been one of my favourite companies for a while now. They provide a great range of affordable web services for doing things like postal address searches and finding the latitude and longitude of a postcode. The services are good, the reliability is good, the [...]
Finding propel objects
April 15, 2008 – 9:42 am
In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]
See a site in every browser - no extra software required
April 4, 2008 – 3:29 pm
There’s now a way in which you can view how your site looks in many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror and many more.
Browsershots.org is one way in which you can view your website as it generates screenshots of your URL on each browser you select. Once all pictures have reached the top [...]