How Javascript can hinder rather than help
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 15th Aug, 2007
Have you ever waited ages for a website to load? If so, you may have been a victim of Javascript-induced lag (JIL). Ok, I just made that up, but you would probably have been a victim of it at one time or another. There’s an interesting discussion on Read/Write Web (echoed by BlueBlog), that talks [...]
Isle of Man Webcams
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 31st May, 2007
There has been a rush of interest in webcams around the Isle of Man because of this TT Centenary, and I was getting bored of rotating through a number of different pages to see what’s going on. So I put together a page with the top 6 cameras around the Island which refreshes on a [...]
Technorati Status Bar Upate
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 4th Apr, 2007
Ok guys, I have a new version (0.3) of the FireFox Extension that lets you check the Technorati ranking of the site you’re currently viewing.
Download here: Technorati Status Bar
This one is better because:
1. It works (API key of 0.1 expired somehow)
2. It works on every page of the website, not just the home page
3. It [...]
ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 ships
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 24th Jan, 2007
I just found out from Scott Guthrie’s blog that ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 has just shipped. There’s been talk about Atlas and CTP versions of this thing floating around for some time now, but it’s nice to see the final version shipping and so much industry support. The whole AJAX initiative makes things much more responsive [...]
Want to see what Malta looks like?
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 31st Oct, 2005
A fellow Maltese geek, Mark Spiteri, has just posted details of his latest project; a Javascript/XML rendition of Malta providing information about each of the major towns and villages. Excellent effort and looks amazing. Check out the detail here
Lemmings in Javascript
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 25th Apr, 2005
If you thought DHTML was just some gimmicky way of making web pages look pretty, have a look at this version of Lemmings in Javascript. It’s absolutely brilliant and extremely true to the 1990 original.
