Category Archives: Web2.0

Before Presenting At A Web2.0 Conference

Posted on April 15, 2006 by James McParlane

#12) Avoid consuming any mind altering substances 72 hours before your presentation. “..and of course one of the most important considerations in determining the latency and the data size to request frequency granularity is the…. OMG!!! LOOK AT THOSE GIANT WINGED SPIDER CATS!!!!! … Continue reading →

Posted in Downtime, Just Kidding, Web2.0 | 3 Comments

Hire'm

Posted on March 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Mr Air bribed me with a packet of potato chips, so I am now going to plug his new venture. What is Hire’m? Hire’m is powerful service to streamline and simplify the hiring process for any kind of business that … Continue reading →

Posted in Coolhunting, Ookle, Web2.0 | Leave a comment

User Centred Design and Leg Waxing

Posted on March 22, 2006 by James McParlane

Fantastic post in which Leisa Reichelt talks about User Centred Design and a leg-waxing experience. “Perhaps it was the combination of pain and dissatisfaction that made me combine my work with my leg wax. In terms of user experience design, … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Arguments

Posted on February 21, 2006 by James McParlane

arguments The arguments object provides access to the arguments that are passed into a function. You can refer to a function’s arguments within the function by using the arguments array. This array contains an entry for each argument passed to the … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, MetaWrap Server, Web2.0 | 7 Comments

Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layout Using JavaScript

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Its a few vowels short of a buzzword, but don’t hold that against it. There is a strong trend at the moment towards dynamic resolution dependent layout via JavaScript, that is the page rearranges the layout of its content via element-wise x,y positioning … Continue reading →

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Web3.0

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

Fantastic article about the hype and truth of Web2.0 by Jeffrey Zeldman. “We pause but a moment to consider two AJAX-related headaches. The first afflicts people who make websites. Wireframing AJAX is a bitch. The best our agency has come … Continue reading →

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Web2.0 – Its All About The API – If You Want To Be Bought By Google/Yahoo/Microsoft

Posted on January 11, 2006 by James McParlane

So Michael Air looks over my shoulder when I’m looking at egoRank and asks a fairly obvious question, “But how are they going to make any money?”. My stock response came out “Someone will buy them.”. Then it hit me. … Continue reading →

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More Reason To Continue With The MetaWrap Rendering Pipeline

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Great post by Dave Johnson that replicates and surpasses some of the benchmarking I have already into the practicality of using XSLT. This is why XSLT is at the heart of the MetaWrap JavaScript Rending Pipeline. The rendering pipeline and macro … Continue reading →

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Why I Don't Use The prototype.js JavaScript Library

Posted on January 6, 2006 by James McParlane

When it comes to JavaScript there is one issue for which there seems to be two polarised camps, and that is the question of extending the inbuilt JavaScript Array and Object types via the prototype object. There are those who … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Rants, Web2.0 | 27 Comments

Ookle

Posted on December 23, 2005 by James McParlane

Just got an IM from Michael Air (whom I have met) with this link revealing the penultimate veil on he and Scott Johnson‘s secret little project. Now, I’m not superstitious, but he announced this an hour after I found my lost phone next to … Continue reading →

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