Archive for February, 2006

Yellow Fade Technique, Revisited

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

In early 2004, 37 Signals popularized the Yellow Fade Technique. Lots of variations followed. Recently, I’ve had to use the YFT on one of my projects but I didn’t like any of the existing alternatives including 37 Signal’s own YFT implementation.  And so, I offer my variation to the YFT.
// Yellow fade technique
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The Ajax Experience

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Just a side note for those of you Ajax junkies out there… I’ll be speaking at The Ajax Experience in San Francisco on May 11th. Looks like a fabulous line up of speakers (Alex Russell of Dojo, Thomas Fuchs of Scriptaculous, and many, many more). If you’re interested, register now. I’ll be [...]

I’m that egghead

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Adding Live Search to PeopleSoft Enterprise

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

In the past week I’ve been playing around with PeopleSoft’s built-in search engine (Verity) to come up with a better search experience for users. Riding on the wave of Google Suggest a lot of people have implemented a “live” search feature on their sites. So, I decided to sprinkle a little AJAX on [...]