Month: February 2006

  • How vSocial Went from 0 to 71 Million Page Views in (about) 120 Days | Ajax Blog

    I’ve been using vSocial more and more lately to watch clips and my main man Shanti recently got a chance for a full-blown interview and posted it over on Ajax Blog. You should definitely check it out since they’ve been scaling massively lately and you can watch cool videos on their site. We wanted to…

  • I just recovered over 7GB of disk space on my Powerbook G4 using these tips…

    I just found a bunch of files that could be safely deleted. This is the graphic of my disk usage pattern. I reclaimed up over 7GB of disk space – a lot of it in caches, old mailboxes that I had moved, and more. The WhatSize application was especially helpful, since it basically gives you…

  • Musicians do love their cats, especially 37 part playing cellists

    Check this out – neat cellist playing a lot of different parts all at once. This is a pretty amazing video of Ethan Winer playing 37 separate cello parts to create one song. He even plays the percussion parts on his cello. It was recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. He spent hundreds…

  • QuizFarm.com :: Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in?

    You scored as Millennium Falcon (Star Wars). The world around you is at war. Fortunately you know how to handle that with the greatest of ease. You are one of the best at what you do and no one needs to tell you that. Now if only the droids could be quiet for five seconds.…

  • Patterns in Interaction Design

    Disregard the dubious spammy-looking presentation of the links in this awesome resource full of design patterns for all kinds of interaction situations. This has some freaking sweet content. Check it out: www.welie.com — patterns in Interaction Design Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/patterns-in-interaction-design/

  • Ethnio – Remote Usability Software

    Neat usability testing service that is well designed and seems like a pretty useful service… Ethnio makes usability testing easy, quick, and accurate. Ethnio is a simple moderated usability application that allows you to easily conduct usability test sessions right from your desk or anywhere you have an internet connection and a phone. It’s made…

  • DOM Scripting: Hijax – allow non-Ajax browsers to still use your site

    There seems to be an inherent paradox in saying that you need to think about your server-side architecture but you should just be building old-fashioned page by page submissions before hijacking them with Ajax. But the paradox can be resolved if you think about Hijax this way: * Plan for Ajax from the start. *…

  • What are the officially supported browsers that Yahoo supports?

    Ever wonder what browsers Yahoo! supports and how much it supports each one? This chart tells you exactly how much. “You never got fired for supporting the same browsers that Yahoo! supports…” 🙂 This table shows the grade of support that each browser receives. For more information, see Graded Browser Support. Yahoo! Developer Network: Graded…

  • Audacity crashed and all I got was this useless dialog message

    Man. So I was working editing the levels for the latest Christian Science podcast for Lafayette Square Christian Science Society when Audacity crashed. Save early, save often, have to remember that again with Audacity. Anyways, it spit out this oh-so-helpful (NOT) error dialog message: Warning Audacity found temporary files that were not deleted or saved…

  • Yahoo! UI Library – Free BSD licensed DHTML widgets

    Yahoo! User Interface Library The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements…

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