Browsing the blog archives for June, 2009

AJAX and animation with jQuery

I wanted to write a short tutorial on how to utilize jQuery to create an animated AJAX page load. I hope to show off a few modern web development trends: Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript that fails gracefully AJAX A quick note: what I’m about to write would make a lot more sense inside a web framework, [...]

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June 22, 2009 in Development

Search Engine Markup Validation

As search engines are usually the doors through which users enter the world wide web, it would be prudent of these sites to promote good web development practices — supporting web standards, accessibility, and so forth. It is really disappointing to see the search engine pages of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft not validate: W3 Markup [...]

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June 14, 2009 in Development

Mac OS X Leopard Time Machine UI

I just had to post something to comment on the Mac OS X Leopard Time Machine user interface. I mostly use Windows, or Linux some times, but a coworker has a Mac laptop on which I was able to see the Time Machine program running. My first reaction was “Wow” and the reason being is [...]

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June 3, 2009 in Development

Faulty PHP Module in Windows Vista

After installing PHP on Windows Vista, Apache was crashing and reporting “php_pdo_mysql.dll” as the Fault Module. After some Googling, I found the solution was to copy the libmysql.dll from my C:\php directory to C:\WINDOWS\System32 and restart Apache.

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June 1, 2009 in Development

Hello world!

I’d like to try out WordPress for my blog. Here goes nothing.

June 1, 2009 in Development