We’re starting  a new category today called website of the day. We’ll try to add here the sites we encounter in our daily surfing on the net  and catch our attention somehow: by beauty, weirdness, the useful information it has, etc. Today site is  minimalmac.com The site tries to gather resources on how to create [...]

Twitter needs no presentation, and the fact that many webmasters include their posts on their sites either. This can be done in may ways, using  the Twitter API. One easy way is javascript. Thanks to some libraries you need few lines of code, and, because all is client-side you have  zero load on the server. [...]

Today I will try to add more resources on the Javascript graphs utilities to create attractive and more intuitive data sets presentations( graphs ). RGraph HTML5 – graph library – yes HTML5 so IE users – change your browser, or use google frame. The library uses the latest CANVAS features and is fully documented on the site. [...]

It’s been a year and a half  since I moved on OsX.  Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard  to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work. My expertise is PHP, JS  [...]

Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want. Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessibility of the site [...]

Ok, we all know now Google Frame. What is it ? It’s a plugin for IE that  creates a frame inside and uses Webkit as renderer & javascript engine. All great because it allows you (the IE user) to see all the fancy new stuff like canvas, HTML5, SVG( maybe?). But why? I mean why [...]

The last MooTools version offers a validation plugin in the mootools-more package, that will help us solve our task. Basically we need to add some classes to out inputs, to reflect the type of validation we want. For our form, we need only name – mandatory, and email – mandatory + correct email formatting.

We made an usability case study for Kroppr.

LAB.js (Loading And Blocking JavaScript) allows you load in parallel your js scripts , speeding up the process ( sometimes a lot). But also it can force that scripts are loaded in a certain order, so this way no dependencies are broken. The developer declares a 2x speed improvement on his site. On an ondevelopment [...]

I am so used with MooTools as I started to forgot the basic Javascript and more, I started to dislike a lot to write code in pure js. But MooTools lacks the touch events ipod and iphone has. So I wrote a small code that adds the touchevents –  well, touch, gesture, animation and transform [...]