Saturday, January 21, 2006

Firebug - a killer new Firefox Extension by Joe Hewitt

You know Joe Hewitt dont you? If not, think about what life might be like for web developers w/o such awesome things like the Dom Inspector or Canvas. Now he has another killer application called Firebug, which lets you debug Ajax applications. Plus he helps do away with "alert debugging" whoo!

Friday, January 20, 2006

jQuery: New Wave Javascript

JQuery takes an interesting tak in the world of javascript libraries. It introduces a shorthand syntax that allows for creating complicated effects quickly. Nice stuff!

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Onion Skinned Drop Shadows (in CSS)

From livemarks comes a nice article about doing drop shadows in CSS.

Star Wars Transformers!

Too geek things that go geek together! Imagine combining star wars figures with transformers.... very cool!

Internet Book List - a database of book info and news

While amazon.com has the lion's share of users who love books writing reviews, buying books, etc. this site hopes to gain traction as the "IMDB" for books. You can find and review books here and perhaps find new books you might not have discovered before. It seems to be a great effort and I encourage book lovers to check it out.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The Society of Gaming - from 2old2play.com

This great article talks about the various types of gamer and challenges you to think about which category you find yourself in.

Octopus Engine - rounded corners done easy

This site spells out a technique for doing the iconical "rounded corners" on web pages. You'd think that with all the workarounds there would be a big effort to add versatile rounded corners in css via W3C. Perhaps someday in the future. But for now, give this a try.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Stardust@Home

Remember Seti@Home? Well this time around you'll need not only your machine but your brainpower to help find a proverbial needle in a football field sized (relatively) haystack. If you find a particle you get to name it.