This whole geotagging concept has me thinking quite a bit.  One of the things that I’ve been concerned about is usability.  This is one of the major factors that comes into play when building any sort of website or webapp.  If you check out the geotagging concept you’ll notice that making a selection in the [...]

I’ve been doing a fair amount of research comparing JSON to XML. We do a good bit of XML transactions at work so it seems appropriate to research alternatives. While this post isn’t really about which approach is better I do want to share a couple of thoughts. First off, JSON appears to be [...]

My dear friend Auburn sent my one of the funniest links I’ve received in a long time. CareerBuilder has implemented a personalized monkey email that allows you to type a message or even use your microphone to record one. Using text-to-speech technology the monkey can then dictate what you typed. The monkey’s [...]

Push technology has been around for what seems like a decade and in the late ’90s it was supposed to revolutionize the web. It has become extremely useful for instant messaging, but there seem to be very few applications that use push in a web browser. About 5 years ago Macromedia released Flash Communication Server [...]

I’ve been spending a good amount of time lately with Ruby on Rails partials. If you’re not familiar with the concept of a partial they’re similar to include files, but seem a lot more powerful. A partial allows developers to easily reuse code in multiple places. A perfect example would be a list of most [...]

I recently posted about the ExternalInterface class in Flash 8, which allows for tight integration of Flash and JavaScript. Adobe (formerly Macromedia) announced today the Flex/Ajax bridge. This will provide even tighter integration of the two environments. I call them environments from the simple fact that they didn’t use to play so well together.
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I recently ran into a problem with Ruby on Rails partials and the link_to_remote tag. link_to_remote allows you to easily make AJAX calls to the server and replace the content of your div with text or HTML from the partial. Since I was using a layout file at the application level that included a [...]