CNET News.com posted an article last week about Microsoft’s attempt to replace the JPEG image format with its own Windows Media Photo. Microsoft says that the format will be supported in Windows Vista as well as Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry »

FastCompany has an article about TagWorld and other next-generation social networks. I guess it seems like everyone is trying to capture some of the popularity created by MySpace. The article hopes to show how companies and individuals are changing the way they communicate in order to create more efficient business. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know important this site will be for many of you, but Aharef has a Java Applet creating a graph of a site and it seems pretty cool to me. It uses the elements within a given webpage and creates a tree based on those elements. What’s pretty cool is the hierarchy of the site is described through the nodes of the tree and the colored nodes representing different elements. Read the rest of this entry »

Demo.com has a pretty cool video demonstrating the next revision to Yahoo! Photos. There aren’t too many products out there that impress me right off the bat, but I have to say from watching this video, I’m very impressed with the improvements made in the new Beta. By utilizing the Web 2.0 concept in the latest version, Yahoo is able to utilize AJAX and create their online photo album program seem like a desktop application. Read the rest of this entry »

While my Linux platform of choice is still Ubuntu, there is a pretty good tutorial on Howto Forge on setting up services for an ISP such as web server, mail server, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, Quotas, and Firewall. The author of the article chooses SuSE Linux for his installation, but this tutorial with a little bit of modification could be used on any flavor of Linux. If you are looking to use SuSE this may be a good tutorial for you to use to setup your machine. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Schiller has a pretty good tutorial on creating rounded corners in CSS. As he says in his post, a lot of people developing Web 2.0 and/or AJAX web applications have created layouts utilizing rounded corners. Read the rest of this entry »

So what is sIFR? Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is a Flash based module for presenting fonts the way the author intended. Not only that, sIFR allows the developer to use any font they desire. This solves the limitations of XHTML/CSS in that the developer is not limited to the fonts found on the users system. On top of that, there is no guarantee the fonts will looks the same across platforms or browsers. Read the rest of this entry »

Dynamic Drive has a tutorial on creating AJAX Tabs similar to the ones I have in the portfolio section on my home page. While I didn’t use this script to create them, many sites such as CNN and Yahoo have incorporated this feature. It’s actually a pretty nice way of organizing a lot of content and only sending the content that the user wants to see making the page load faster and less bandwidth hits on your server. Read the rest of this entry »

When writing scripts, I didn’t think white space would affect my code so much. A space is still considered a character though and it does take up file space. By using the Java tool Dojo to compress JavaScript files, removing white space reduces a 321B file down to 140B. While this might not seem like that much with broadband connections out, it makes a difference. Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin has a post by Cal Henderson for those creating next generation web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. The main issue is the optimization of the content in order to give users the best possible experience when visiting the website. Read the rest of this entry »