BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I had pulled the colors for the Bb Gun from an old ad for Red Ryder BB guns. If you’ve watched the movie, “A Christmas Story”, you’ll recognize both the gun and the ad. I also originally had an image of the gun on the site. However, when I asked […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally rolled out the ScriptTeaser site tonight. My first writing focuses on the Dojo fisheye effect I created for the menu bar, and is titled Geegaws can be accessible. Valid, too.. In the article, I covered all of the code I created to make this particular geegaw valid, and partially accessible. I […]
One of the DHTML (Dynamic HTML) effects not built into my own libraries is a fish-eye effect. Those of you who have a Mac will know the effect I’m talking about: when you move your mouse over a menu bar, the items expand but in a way that emulates a ‘fish-eye’ magnifier. This isn’t a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are some high profile folk in the technology and weblgging communities who are quitting Apple products: Mark Pilgrim, Cory Doctorow, and even Tim Bray is giving it a thought. Jason Kottke asks whether Apple should be worried. He wonders whether these acts could be a foretaste of what is to come: Nerds are a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Programmers have traditionally created as their first application in any language or environment the “Hello World” application. This is an application, small as possible, that outputs the words, “Hello World”. Wikipedia has a nice entry on Hello World, including the first known instance of using this now ubiquitous right of passage […]