Category Archives: Web Development

Opacity supports “Export to Canvas”

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Derek

Looks like I may be able to soon replace Adobe Fireworks as my image editing tool of choice for the web. Ajaxian recently featured a new tool called Opacity, and if you follow through to their website, you’ll find a … Continue reading →

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The Reason RSS Cloud Can Work Now

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Derek

Rogers Cadenhead recently wrote a post “The Reason RSS Cloud Failed to Catch On“. In this he argues that RSS Cloud is not sustainable when it begins to scale to thousands of users needing to receive pings every time a … Continue reading →

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Cloud Enabled

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Derek

Today WordPress.com announced RSS Cloud support for all their hosted blogs. Not to be left out of the party, I also installed the RSS Cloud plugin on this blog. RSS Cloud is an ancient RSS element (in web 2.0 years) … Continue reading →

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Auto-versioning JavaScript & CSS files

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Derek

As JavaScript becomes a more integral part to the core functionality of websites, ensuring that a user has a fresh copy of the latest code is as important as ever. Normally a browser will cache certain filetypes (CSS, JS, JPG, … Continue reading →

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Upcoming events for Kansas City developers/designers

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Derek

I’m involved with organizing two upcoming events in the Kansas City area for web developer/designers. PreDevCamp – Kansas City This is an event we just announced today that will be a “bootcamp” for developing on Palm’s new Mojo SDK platform, … Continue reading →

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Using Git on 1&1 (or any ‘shared’) hosting

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Derek

Here’s another “How-to” with 1and1 hosting, and this time I want to get the source code control/versioning program “Git” installed on my shared host with 1&1.  This was actually remarkably easy. Go download Git from http://git-scm.com/download.  At the time of … Continue reading →

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Tweenky, Zendcon, vacations, CCCKC, DotNext, etc…

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Derek

Blogging is something that comes in waves for me, and once I get out of the habit, it is tough to get back into it.  I enjoy it, but sometimes there’s just so much going on that it completely escapes … Continue reading →

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Issue when compiling FFMPEG on RHEL4

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Derek

A user uploaded a Quicktime video to my website the other day and the server ran into a problem transcoding it to FLV. I hit up #ffmpeg and it was suggested that I upgrade my install of FFMPEG and libfaad. … Continue reading →

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Reddit fighting with its developers

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Derek

Day #1 of Reddit going open source, and they are already fighting with their developers. C’mon guys, you clearly don’t understand what is being requested, so ask for clarification instead of being so stubborn. We understand you are busy getting … Continue reading →

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First AJAX script

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Derek

Well, I finally got around to giving Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) a whirl. I wasn’t trying to do anything spectacular, just something functional to wet my appetite. I started out just wanting to allow people to send me text … Continue reading →

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