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Handy Tips from Tipster

1. May 2009

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Handy Tips from Tipster

There have been a ton of helpful and interesting tips posted to Tipster recently, so I thought we’d pull a few out for you all (and give the submitters a bit of well-deserved publicity). Topics that we’re covering are: MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, life hacks and server admin. MySQL Geo Search Here’s a MySQL statement to [...]

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Streamline your Forms with Widgets

12. February 2008

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We all know that people don’t like filling out forms online, including the folks who design and build them. Most good web designers working today know to keep them as concise and painless as possible. A minimalist sign up process on your shiny new web app is sure to produce a higher sign [...]

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Widgets and Plug-ins for Social Sites

14. January 2008

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In this presentation, Matt Biddulph, CTO at Dopplr discusses how they worked with Facebook and also JavaScript (using JQuery) to create the social widgets and plug-ins that are essential to Dopplr’s make-up. Matt also spoke about other critical stages in the development of Dopplr - including how they used the internet as a platform, and how [...]

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Setting & Retrieving Accesskeys with JavaScript and DOM

22. March 2007

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There are some things in the world of accessibility that appear, on the face of it, to be really wonderful ideas… until you scratch slightly below the service. What may seem feasible when putting together some guidelines on accessibility might not ultimately translate well to a real-world application. Hands up who can remember the last [...]

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The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript

17. July 2006

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Forums and mailing lists are full of requests about Ajax, DOM Scripting and how to use this or that library or effect. There is also an extraordinary amount of scripts, libraries and effects being developed and showcased, and the blogs and news sites specialising in scripting hardly have time to look at the demos properly [...]

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15 Things You Can Do with Yahoo! UI

2. July 2006

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I will admit straight up front - I don’t like writing long articles. There, I said it. I passed College English convincing my professors that I should be rewarded more for my creativity rather than the length of my prose. I’m the kind of guy that spent more time writing short stories than huge complicated [...]

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Serving JavaScript Fast

21. May 2006

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With our so-called "Web 2.0" applications and their rich content and interaction, we expect our applications to increasingly make use of CSS and JavaScript. To make sure these applications are nice and snappy to use, we need to optimize the size and nature of content required to render the page, making sure we’re delivering the [...]

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