Friday, March 10, 2006

Flow in Games - a flash game with serious cool

This game, called Flow is an experimental game which you can read about on the site. Basically you start out not knowing anything about how the game works, and gradually you'll figure it out -- its peaceful, fun, and you'll find yourself spending hours before you realize it.

Javascript Optimization

This is a great article about how to modify and optimize your javascript code for greater speed.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

You Know You Are Web 2.0 When...

This is an interesting article about the state of "Web 2.0" and how the term seems to be falling out of favor with techies. It also spells out a short list of features that the author believes signifies what Web 2.0 sites tend to have.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Free Application / Website Icons

Many "free" icons sets are actually just "royalty free" meaning you buy the rights to use them for one instance. These icons however are truly free and are yours for the taking (and using for cool things!)

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Laszlo to support DHTML / AJAX

This is astounding news! I just visited the Laszlo site and discovered they have a demo up of the new DHTML runtime for Laszlo:

Compare: http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-flash

with : http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-dhtml

in Firefox 1.5

-- Amazing! This is huge folks. You will be able to author applications in one language and output to different runtimes!

Mollio - simple CSS templates

If you are working on the web, chances are the design you want to implement has been done before. Probably done tons of times. So why spend all that time recreating the wheel when you can simply use existing code and templates? This site presents a series of CSS based templates for you to use and be inspired to mashup for your own works. Enjoy!

Wetpaint - web 2.0 meets wikis

Aqua - style buttons, AJAX up the wazoo, and brand new to boot! What more can you want in a new web 2.0 website? Wetpaint is a snazzy new wiki hosting service that has gobs of eye candy. Check it out!