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
var [...]
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 [...]
I’m working on a new Greasemonkey script and with the recent discovery of cross-domain access to JSON data, I figured the same technique would be a good way to bring in JavaScript libraries that can be useful in your Greasemonkey scripts. The only hitch is that you have to trust the host of the libraries [...]
Those who know about JSON know about the big productivity gain over of parsing raw XML. In today’s world of AJAX, I think JSON is a disruptive technology. It opens the the world of mashups to so many more people (especially when you couple it with new techniques to get around the browser [...]
Over the past week, I’ve been spending some time learning Python. My real interest is in Jython, the Python interpreter for Java, but there’s no difference in language semantics so it’s just like learning Python. Earlier this week, I ran into the “Google Map Hack for Large Maps” in my del.icio.us/popular feed. [...]