04.08.08 - 05:16pm
Is Google App Engine HuddleChat a Campfire Rip-Off? [SearchEngineWatch]
So it would seem either Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management had no clue HuddleChat was an “Attack of the Clones” app or he gave the greenlight for a product launch knowing many in the developer community would likely view Google App Engine as a Xerox machine […]
04.08.08 - 08:29am
I’m sure everyone and their mother has written but: Google has released their new cloud computing platform called AppEngine.
It looks to be pretty cool with a nice amount of free cycles. It’ll be interesting to see how Amazon responds (maybe we’ll get some free EC2 ammounts?).
Right now AppEngine only supports python but they […]
04.07.08 - 05:48pm
I had occassion to go back to the excellent 24ways.org post Compose to a Vertical Rythm.
“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.” So says the typographer Robert Bringhurst[…]
What a great article (check out […]
04.03.08 - 11:45am
I usually hate these things… but this one is cool: http://qgallery.quadrifolia.de/
04.02.08 - 12:40pm
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What is Ringside Social Application Server?
Open source social application server, providing every request with the context of the user, user data and the users network. Thus giving every application the capability to be more social. Combining your application with Ringside Social Application Server can turn an application into a social […]
04.02.08 - 11:56am
Fun with stats, the S3 edition. - (37signals)
The fact that S3 is priced so reasonably (our last bill was $2,004.12) and the fact that it’s generally hassle free has enabled us to drastically increase the storage limits for all of our applications. Not having to worry about managing the file servers and backups is […]
03.25.08 - 10:48am
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry and Sign Up Forms Must Die.
I’ve been thinking about “initial infrastructure” lately. Both of these ideas are much easier to implement in a green field environment and both have huge payoffs. Something to note as you build your next web-app.
02.29.08 - 06:03pm
New version of the Motionbox EventHandler fixes two bugs.
ID-based subscriptions were only being fired once
Better compatibility with newest prototype on IE6
http://motionbox.googlecode.com/files/event_handler-1.0.1.js
02.20.08 - 11:32am
Event delegation and bubbling seems to have become a little bit of a hot-topic lately. We've been using a custom-written prototype.js based library for a while here at Motionbox and after reading some articles on Ajaxian and others, we've decided to open-source the library.
As you know, the technique of listening to events high in the [...]
10.15.05 - 05:50pm
Well... if anyone stumbles upon this - I have a very limited release of an app I'm building. This post is to test out the trackback feature. It's a polling site that is pretty much built for bloggers. It doesn't work too well right now... so please no posting this somewhere else.
Thanks.