So you are building your AJAX-enabled web site and want a nice animated gif to indicate to your users that something is happening behind the screen.
You google for images and all you find are those traditional black and white animated gifs. What if you need it in blue background and yellow foreground? Like this nice one below... ;)
Well, just go here and generate your image just the way you need it!
Reencoded has recently posted an article featuring 10 tools help designers to layout a grid using CSS. This should be a time saver for those creating a layout from scratch and want to free of table-based layout. Who uses that anyways? No, really I wanna know because everywhere I look people are using css for the layout of their pages.
Mozilla Labs have some cool projects. I found the Ubiquity project specially interesting.
It is supposed to understand what a user wants to do instead of what they want to find. It will allow people to interact with mashups in a much more natural way, enhancing the web experience. It still relies on the user knowing which mashups, but it seems very promising, specially if they release an API.
I was reading an article from Jeremiah Owyang and I stumbled upon this new term (at least for me is new ;) ): "The Intention Web". Jeremiah talks about how the web changed in the past years from "Asynchronous Web" into "Real-Time Web" and now "The Intention Web". I do not know whether he is the one who chose this name, but I think it is very meaningful.
One of the most interesting usages I found on using Twitter is being able to keep up to the ideas and thought of the most influential people on the IT business in a pace that would never be possible by buying magazines, articles or RSS feeds.
So I built a list with the top 10 most interesting people to follow if you are interested in IT, internet, programming, geek stuff etc. You can just check my twitter list with all of them or read below.
LinkedInhas announced today that they have released their API to allow developers all over the world to create applications that integrate better with their service.
All you have to do is access the LinkedIn Developer Network, get an account and API Key (to be used with the oAuth protocol) and you are good to go.
I wrote an article the other day stating that I had no idea why someone would call a Helper method from inside a Controller in Rails.
I just found a reason. Here is what I needed to do:
Rails relies on the MVC separation to do its job, i.e. the Model handles the database interaction, the View handles the user and front-end interaction and the Controller handles the business logic and flow of the information.
