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Tux Magazine, covering all things for Linux Desktops, just annouced they are moving to a paid version starting in 2007. I have been reading the magazine for the past couple of months and enjoy it. I’m not sure if I will become a paid subscriber, but at 83 cents an issue, it is hard to […]

Sitepoint has an interesting interview with Jacob Nielson about usability and AJAX. One of the points Nielson brought up really strikes a cord with me. He says “It’s important to remember that most web sites are not used repeatedly. Usually, users will visit a given page only once.”. I think this is key when deciding […]

I noticied (and read online) that Google had put in scrolling on their maps via the mouse wheel. But I just stumbled across something new while using Gmail - if you are typing an email and hit crtl+s, the normal Microsoft save command for word docs, it will actually use AJAX to save the email […]

I had to come up with a quick little snippet of code to create some SEO friendly urls for dynamic content. What constitutes a SEO friendly url? Basically, just a url with a bunch of words and dashes, nothing to scientific about that. But it does make sense, as the url of this page will […]

I just finished creating a “value” calculator for a company using JavaScript. It computed the overall value a person would save by joining the organization – nothing fancy, just a couple of input boxes, some simple equations and 10 values to display. What was tricky, at least for a JavaScript neophyte like me, was getting […]