With all the brilliant tools (Google Page Speed, YSlow, etc.) out there, web professionals can now easily see a few basic things to improve page speed performance. One suggestion is to send static content from a cookieless domain. On most sites I’ve worked with, we serve static content from a media subdomain and then the [...]
I recently came across a little cross-browser issue with using the align attribute in tables. The problem was that we had some cells centering in Internet Explorer and Opera but not in Safari and Firefox. The result was how the inheritence of the align attribute is handled by the different browsers. The first image below [...]
We’re planning an event here at Well.ca, a secret event. But that’s not what this post is about. To organize and send out invites for this event I suggested we use MyPunchBowl. I haven’t done much with it, but it looked half decent and I’ve heard good things about it. There was one problem with [...]
Recently on StartupIndex.ca, I’ve noticed a problem where the first time you login it fails, the second time it works. I sat down last night, and spent some time attempting to solve this problem. My search on the greater web didn’t end up with very many results, I did find one mailing list thread on [...]
Jevon and I were interviewed by ComputerWorld Canada yesterday. The article just went up this morning. Can get to it here: http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/25b53438-4513-4bda-8527-0350f9672ae7.html
I’m starting to work on a project at Well.ca using Java and REST. Knowing the amount of REST libraries out there for other languages, I figured there would be a good amount for Java. Wrong! There is a Java specification currently in draft for REST, it’s called JSR 311. Now the problem with this is [...]
I updated StartupIndex.ca yesterday with some new features. Ali updated the map on the frontpage to be more intelligent and fixed some annoying problems with it. Now it looks better and responds better. We now have widgets! See below for an example widget, but this code can be placed into any webpage to give information [...]
IETester was just released, this tool looks to be incredibly handy. Right now it’s in Alpha, but I’m still planning on using it. Previously I used Multiple IE, but I found that to be a little buggy and prone to not work at all at times. I’m planning on giving it a try sometime today, [...]
StartupIndex was launched tonight at StartupCampToronto. I’m really excited to see where this goes. We have lots of plans for the future, lots and lots of features and information. I’ll keep this blog updated when major updates are made. For now, check out StartupIndex and read Jevon’s post about StartupIndex on StartupNorth. Only a few [...]
Just a quick snippet, I call this code on a site I’m working on to handle some basic moderation. It finds the difference between the two instances, and returns a dictionary of the changes. The key in the dictionary is the field name, each value in the dictionary is a tuple containing the new and [...]
