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21st Apr 2008 Making Buttons ‘Bobble’
A simple CSS effect.
18th Apr 2008 Interchangeable Form Elements
Same data, different user interface.
16th Apr 2008 Mid-April Link Dump
Eurovision, comics, JavaScript, cards and more.
15th Apr 2008 Missing Scrollbars In Mac Firefox 3
An obscure but irritating quirk.
9th Apr 2008 A Shinier, Tastier Green Apple
An eco-friendly ecommerce redesign.
25th Mar 2008 Late-March Link Dump
Replies, URLs, comments, security, sci-fi, SPF and caching.
7th Mar 2008 Early-March Link Dump
Zombies, information, layouts, maps, pi and more.
20th Feb 2008 Using the Vista Fonts Without Vista
Install them in XP for free.
10th Feb 2008 Mid-February Link Dump
Bear, livestock, dog, pony, lemurs and more.
16th Jan 2008 Mid-January Link Dump
Printing, recording, squatting, fighting and more.
20th Dec 2007 Pre-Christmas Link Dump
Sega, favicons, crunch mode, idents and more.
19th Dec 2007 Hiding CSS From IE5
A conditional comments example.
18th Dec 2007 IE5 R.I.P.
It’s the new Netscape 4.
23rd Nov 2007 Gabocorp: a Flashy Flashback to 1997
Shiny spheres and looped music.
19th Nov 2007 World of LOLcraft
By popular demand.
12th Nov 2007 Mid-November Link Dump
Science, vectors, cows, animation, poultry, comics and more.
23rd Oct 2007 Floral Fashion
Boutique shopping for clothes, lingerie and accessories.
18th Oct 2007 Mid-October Link Dump
Animation, exploits, Morse, Ajax, SEO, games, amputation and beans.
21st Sep 2007 Mid-September Link Dump
Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more.
30th Aug 2007 August Link Dump
Video, newspapers, marketing, ideas, bubbles and more.
24th Aug 2007 DNS Rebinding Nastiness
Zombifying browsers for fun and profit.
6th Aug 2007 Flash Enhancements
11 ways to use it to extend the browser.
19th Jul 2007 Analytics Revisited
Trying out the new Google Analytics interface.
18th Jul 2007 Mid-July Link Dump
Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names.
4th Jun 2007 Browsing By Ear
A video introduction to screen reading technology.
2nd Jun 2007 May Link Dump
Sickness, security, sound effects and more.
27th Apr 2007 April Link Dump
GIFs, colours, templates, demos, clients, CSS, frameworks and maths.
14th Apr 2007 A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks)
Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites.
30th Mar 2007 March Link Dump
Lisa, fluid, stats, Python, brushes, Wii and time off.
28th Feb 2007 February Link Dump
Torquay, Robocop, idents, flowers and more.
22nd Feb 2007 PaperVision3D’s Flashy Origami
Chucking polygons around with ActionScript.
15th Feb 2007 Inelegance-Sensing-Man Isn’t Very Catchy
From hearing whines to just whining.
24th Jan 2007 Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites
Sound advice from Flickr’s architect.
12th Jan 2007 Microsoft Kills Off CSS In Emails
A backwards step for developers and email marketers.
28th Dec 2006 End-of-year Link Dump
Using up URLs marked “Best Before End: 2006”.
4th Dec 2006 Spam: The Movie
A trick for sneaking video into email.
28th Nov 2006 November Link Dump
Chicks, nukes, prime numbers and more.
27th Nov 2006 techlawlifelaunched
A new malevolent-designed site for attorney Jeff Seul.
24th Nov 2006 Flash Dance
Anyone drawn Jennifer Beals yet?
20th Oct 2006 Vulnerability
Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes.
21st Sep 2006 XHTML Rules, OK?
More misguided markup advice.
15th Sep 2006 Going Phishing With Google
A handy security hole for scammers.
14th Sep 2006 Tweaking WordPress Page Titles
Improve most themes with a snippet of code.
9th Sep 2006 Sweet Test Suite
Running OS X and Windows in parallel in Parallels.
4th Sep 2006 Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing
Keep prying eyes away from work in progress.
18th Aug 2006 Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X
I think the title says more than enough.
17th Aug 2006 Development Developments
I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy.
10th Aug 2006 Childish Games
Do geeky kids still get into programming?
14th Jul 2006 Dumpy Digg, Flabby Flickr
High calorie toolkits can weigh sites down.
24th Jun 2006 WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes
Warnings for fellow web developers.
4th Jun 2006 May Link Dump
E-commerce, RSI, bogroll, generators, demons and scripts.
21st May 2006 Pre-activated Flash
Getting rid of ‘Eolas clicks’.
16th May 2006 The Duh/Wince Code
Maybe I’ve been doing too much Flash ActionScript recently.
5th May 2006 New, Improved Flash ‘Fuzzy Felt’
More dragging and dropping.
19th Apr 2006 Keeping It Stupidly Simple
Approach nifty interface gimmicks with caution.
2nd Apr 2006 March Link Dump
A month’s worth of bits’n’pieces.
10th Mar 2006 Keeping Flash Active
Internet Explorer update forces changes to sites.
22nd Feb 2006 February Link Dump
Bears, water, politics, web dev and fonts.
31st Jan 2006 January Link Dump
IE, animals, T-shirts, dinosaurs, tooltips, driving, wrapping and a quiz.
24th Jan 2006 New Blood For Bloglines
Some additions to my daily reading.
14th Jan 2006 Finishing Touches: Prettier Printing
Making sure sites look their best on paper.
2nd Jan 2006 New Year Link Dump
Clearing out miscellaneous bits’n’pieces.
26th Nov 2005 Finishing Touches: Avoiding Caching Glitches
Prevent old style sheets from hanging around.
16th Nov 2005 Flash ‘Fuzzy Felt’
Really simple drag’n’drop scripting.
5th Nov 2005 Finishing Touches: Fonts
Tweaking typography using less obvious font choices.
2nd Nov 2005 Some People Just Won’t Listen to Good Advice
The perils of game development and sequelitis.
18th Oct 2005 Mid-October Link Dump
Quickly rustled up from miscellaneous leftovers.
27th Sep 2005 Software Development Myths
A few misconceptions about programming.
18th Sep 2005 Encyclopedic Internationalisation
Using Wikipedia as an example of I18n best practice.
4th Sep 2005 Finishing Touches: Useful URLs
The address bar is part of your site’s interface.
12th Aug 2005 Flashy Flash 8
New toys to play with from Macromedia.
7th Aug 2005 They Know Where You Browse
Browsers expose more data than you might realise.
30th Jul 2005 Sky Interactive’s E-Business Portal
Get your web site on UK satellite telly for free? Surely not.
26th Jul 2005 “Kids Love Potter, Jerry”
J.K.Rowling demonstrates how not to use Flash.
11th Jul 2005 Finishing Touches: Search Engine Optimisation
How to avoid throwing away free traffic.
6th Jun 2005 Finishing Touches: Block Quotes
Neatly displaying quoted chunks of content and their sources.
26th May 2005 A 3D Frog That Isn’t Crazy
Pushing Flash, kicking and screaming, into the third dimension.
1st May 2005 Add Google Maps’ Directions to Your Site
Help people to find you with a simple little form.
30th Apr 2005 Safari So Goody (Sorry…)
First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 .
23rd Apr 2005 Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil
Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies.
14th Apr 2005 Gmail Basic HTML View
Not as accessible as it should be.
2nd Apr 2005 Finishing Touches: Opacity Rollovers
Add a translucency effect to linked images.
22nd Mar 2005 March Link Dump
A quick clear-out of this month’s notes.
16th Mar 2005 Not The ‘Blink’ Malcom Gladwell Had In Mind
Hotel haunted by CSS horror.
14th Mar 2005 Validate While You Browse
Handy Firefox extension for developers.
28th Feb 2005 Finishing Touches: Text Inputs
Slightly slicker form styling.
23rd Feb 2005 Retro Markup: Just Say No, Kids
XHTML pointless and overhyped? No and yes…
15th Feb 2005 The Flashy Rodent Dilemma
Should I stick with DHTML when redesigning malevole?
8th Feb 2005 Finishing Touches: Code Blocks
Producing prettier program listings.
13th Jan 2005 Finishing Touches: Emphasis
Highlighting the key point in each weblog entry.
5th Jan 2005 ASCII + JavaScript = MathML
Good-looking mathematical formulas in web pages.
5th Jan 2005 Remote Scripting for Dummies
Resources for developers getting started with XMLHttpRequest.
1st Jan 2005 Finishing Touches: Styled Keys
Applying CSS to the kbd tag to display keyboard controls.
22nd Dec 2004 Finishing Touches: External Links
Automatically adding little icons to signpost the emergency exits.
11th Dec 2004 Manufacturing Widgets
Building mini-applications for Dashboard and Konfabulator.
10th Dec 2004 Flash Resurrection
Macromedia’s Flash for ’phones brings an old adversary back to life.
26th Nov 2004 Ill-informed Journalists, Bah Humbug
Columnist’s page doesn't work properly. Blames browser.
3rd Nov 2004 Submit Yourself to the Button
Yield! Surrender! Give in to authority!

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