Posts Tagged ‘web development’
A VC’s View of Web 2.0
June 11th, 2006
So I’ve been pretty busy lately, and have fallen behind on my blog entries. Some of the things I will be blogging on I have collected over the past few weeks so if it seems like old new to you, it might just be that, but I figured I still wanted to mention the subjects in my blog because it?s worth reading. The article on BusinessWeek Online describes Ray Lane of Oracle?s take on Web 2.0. He used to work for Oracle and now he is moving in the startup direction for those that don’t know.
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Write Firefox Extensions Using BugMeNot
June 8th, 2006
I haven’t really attempted to create my own Firefox extensions. I think it would be pretty cool to create some tools people could use, but I can’t seem to find the time to do projects like these. In fact, I sometimes find it hard to write entries in my blogs. For those interested in writing their own extensions, there is a pretty good tutorial on roachfiend.com.
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Six Apart Launches Vox Preview
June 4th, 2006
Six Apart, the creator of the popular blog software applications TypePad, MovableType, and Live Journal, has released a public preview of a new software package called Vox. Vox is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) blogging application with Web 2.0 style. It makes it quite easy for users to have customized blogs. The concept behind it is to allow those who aren’t necessarily technically savvy to be able to blog like those who are.
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Websites as Graphs
May 29th, 2006
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.
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Yahoo! Photos Beta
May 29th, 2006
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.
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The Perfect Setup – SuSE 10.1
May 26th, 2006
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.
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More Rounded Corners With CSS
May 25th, 2006
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.
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sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
May 25th, 2006
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.
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AJAX Tabs Content Script
May 24th, 2006
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.
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Dojo The Browser Toolkit
May 24th, 2006
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.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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