Happy President’s Day everyone! Another random sampling of all things web… Google Maps just got out-Googled… Of all people, Microsoft, created an amazing “augmented-reality mapping technology“. A lame name, even by Microsoft standards, but a truly impressive technology. As the … Continue reading
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Today’s Readings
By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites? Okay, good. Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients? Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Been a while, eh? How you all doing? What a crazy couple weeks it’s been, but, since I find myself oddly wide-awake at 4am, I figured why not catch up on my RSS reading and blog writing, right? So here … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Tamura Jones provides a very thorough write-up about Google Chrome Frame. I am not a fan of the detection and implementation method (i.e. adding a meta tag to every page, just to catch some users, but it is what it … Continue reading
Test if a File or URL Exists or Check Last Modified Date
Jim Ley writes a very in-depth article about using Ajax calls to test the validity of URLs, test for file existence, or check last-modified dates of files. While the benefits of checking last-modified dates and testing for a valid URL … Continue reading