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How to Do a Barrel Roll with CSS
So I’m sure by now you’ve heard of Google’s latest Easter egg: type in “do a barrel roll” or “z or r twice” in Google, and the page will roll around. It’s an obvious nod to Star Fox 64. Want to know how this trick works?
Your Time Is Limited
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]
A Few Handy Online Tools for Web Development
I like to post lists every once in a while. I’m no Smashing Magazine, but I do my best at posting useful resources. Here are some tools and sites that I find useful for web development.
The myTouch Slide Is Awesome
Late last year, I bought a Motorola CLIQ. The CLIQ runs Android 1.5, has a nice keyboard, and it comes built-in with neat social networking features (via MOTOBLUR). (I wish Motorola didn’t feel the need to uppercase all of their brand names. >_<) Anyway, it was a pretty decent phone, and it was a nice [...]
Updating My Scheduler App with More CSS and JavaScript Goodness
Remember the scheduler app that I wrote? It’s a tiny web app that doesn’t do much: You add a bunch of entries to a time slot, and it randomly picks an entry from each time slot. Essentially, you use it when you’ve got a lot of choices (e.g., scheduling volunteers to work at an event), [...]
The War on Flash
Just in case you didn’t know, there’s a war on Flash. Yup, I’m referring to that Flash: that Adobe plugin in your web browser that lets you watch YouTube videos and view flashy movie websites like Iron Man 2 and Avatar. Flash is about 10 years old, and thanks to video and music sites, it’s [...]
Cloud Services with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
Clouds are big puffy white things that float in the sky. Some clouds look like little animal creatures. Other clouds just look like clouds. Sometimes water leaks out of them, and rain happens. No, cloud computing has nothing to do with clouds, or anything in the sky for that matter. I think we just needed [...]
Using jQuery to Make a Simple Scheduler App
Hey, check out my new app. ^_^ It’s been a while since I coded something up. I’ve been meaning to get back into doing side projects, but it’s not always easy finding free time after work. One of my friends wanted an easier way to create schedules for employees, so I decided to give this [...]
Motorola Cliq will Get Android 2.1!
Remember how I said that if you wanted Google Maps Navigation on your Cliq, you’d have to wait for T-Mobile to roll out an upgrade? Well, it looks like that’s about to happen! Well, eventually.
Playing with Google App Engine
I’m playing with Google App Engine! In case you’ve been living under a rock, Google App Engine is basically free hosting for Java and Python apps. Your app is hosted on an appspot.com subdomain, and you can pay for extra resources if your app starts to get really popular. I’ll be using it to play [...]
Google Buzz
Hello, Google. I use most of your products, and I like most of them. So I hear you have this new thing out called Google Buzz. Hmm, interesting. Looks decent. But… do I really need another real-time messaging service?
The Apple iPad Hype, in a Nutshell
I usually don’t write about stuff with this much hype, but for some reason, I feel compelled to give my two cents on the subject. I’m not very impressed with Apple’s new tablet, and many others were left underwhelmed as well. The months of rumors and speculation that hyped up the device and set our expectations [...]
3 Really Bad Microsoft Videos
Oh, Microsoft. For some reason, they have a history of making really bad commercials and promos. There’s something about them that makes them really good at making really bad videos. Some of them are so bad that they’re funny, while others just make you wonder who actually watches this stuff. Here are a few videos [...]
