Posted by Tim Whitacre on Jun 2, 2009
Will this be the year the Microsoft redeems themselves?
Recently M$ started forcing users to upgrade to IE8. Of course there is no forcing, but they are strongly suggesting it, and for good reasons. For once, they have a browser that actually plays nicely with other browsers. Finally IE can stop being the kid on the [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Apr 14, 2009
It’s no secret that most web developers use Firefox for developing even if it’s not their favorite browser. Why? Well because of the vast library of extensiona that aid us along. I thought I would list some of my favorite extensions and a brief description.
Firebug - It’s a great DOM inspector
Greasemonkey - Uses JavaScript to [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Apr 6, 2009
This past weekend I was working on a feature that will need to be able to store checkbox data into a MySQL table row using PHP. I kept getting different errors, and could not figure out for the life of me why this was happening. After searching on the internet for a LONG time, and [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Mar 3, 2009
Have you ever wanted to set up your own web server.
I know that I have, and I found a great tutorial as to how to do that!
Having your own server is actually really nice, especially if you are very in to programming. If you’ve got an old computer laying around that you dont’ really use [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Jan 6, 2009
It’s no secret that many people are switching from Internet Explorer to a different browser, but why? I usually tell people that web standards, security and usability are some of the top reasons. But what if you don’t care that much about those things? Well I just found a website that can hopefully give you [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Dec 31, 2008
Well, it’s the last day of 2008 and I’m just about to wrap my last website of they year. I was looking back at the sites I did in the beginning of the year and boy have they come along way. The Internet is constantly changing and it can be tough to stay current with [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Nov 7, 2008
Today I came accross a very interersting post on Jeffery Zeldman’s ( The Web Standards Guy ) personal blog. It was basically about how alot of people spend time creating some of the BEST websites on the web, but since their website background is white… then forget to set a default background color. To quote [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Oct 31, 2008
I’m talking about the Javascript Framework war! Will it ever end. Well, I sure hope not.
I hope it never ends because I want there to always be competition so the frameworks continue to adapt and become better!
Case in point…. Yesterday I was asked to go and work on a client’s site. In their site they [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Sep 23, 2008
Wanna see something neat? There’s been a little buzz around here about how fast Google Chrome renders Javascript. Well over the past few weeks I’ve been looking into different Javascript Frameworks and their speed and functionality. I came across this site to see the differences. I got to thinking, “I wonder how fast Chrome would [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Sep 17, 2008
I was playing around last night on the world wide web and found an awesome tutorial to make your website change as the weather changes. Obviously all we are really changing is the CSS file used to style the page, but we need a little PHP and good old Yahoo Weather to implement it. Check [...]