I’m a bit preoccupied with Africa as a continent this week. I think it started when I saw two fashion spreads about Africa — textiles, jewelry, etc, being ‘in’ for spring. Combine that with a recent gift of beads from a friend’s visit to Nigeria, and recent purchases of music from Nigeria, Morocco, and Somalia [...] [Posted: 25 Feb 2009]
This is what happens when the light from my laptop resets my circadian rhythms: I stay up until nearly 2 a.m. creating a mix over at 8tracks.com. 8 songs. 8 artists. 6 countries. Tracks may not be presented in the order I intended. 8 Tracks’ licensing agreement means that they have to shuffle tracks after [...] [Posted: 25 Feb 2009]
Building on the work of Christian Heilmann,* and his SITESEARCH 1.0, I present a modified version of his site search script that supports paginated results. View a working example Download the JavaScript What do you have to do differently to make this work? The good news is not much . The major difference is the [...] [Posted: 20 Feb 2009]
Google Analytics allows you to collect pretty robust data about how users move through your e-commerce site. Here’s how to make it work with Zen Cart, an open source shopping cart. For this tutorial, you will need: A Zen Cart-based shopping cart A Google Analytics account and the tracking code for both conversions and page [...] [Posted: 19 Feb 2009]
Microsoft is back to being Microsoft-y, the credit crisis explained, and other bits. IE8: Standards Mode Opt-In is Back From the Dead Microsoft is (almost) returning to its original stance on IE. (More on IE8) YUI 2.7.0 Released Version 2.7.0 introduces a new StyleSheet component, graduates three components out of “beta”, improves support for the [...] [Posted: 18 Feb 2009]
Dries Buytaert broke the story yesterday. TechPresident.com explains why choosing Drupal matters to the American public and to open source software. [Via Ruby] [Posted: 18 Feb 2009]
Plus a fun link. Enjoy! Quotes on Design Advanced Debugging with JavaScript Opera web standards curriculum: JavaScript in town! Is Google Chrome The New IE 6 For Web Designers? (Uh, no. Chrome is its own pain in the a**) [Posted: 5 Feb 2009]