Archives for November 2007

Date Library - Not what I expected

Ajaxian wrote about a cool Mad Cool Date Library. It unfortunately is not library of ladies waiting to date me. It IS one really cool JavaScript library for handling dates. You have to read the Ajaxian article to see all of the cool tricks.
Here’s just a few samples from the article:
What date is next thursday?
Date.today().next().thursday();
// [...]

28 November 2007 | programming, web design | No Comments

Health benefits of Forgiveness

I know one person in particular who could benefit by reading Mayo Clinic’s “Forgiveness: How to let go of grudges and bitterness.”

28 November 2007 | general | No Comments

Wufoo Form Gallery

Wufoo has great looking templates in their Form Gallery. While these short forms look great, I typically have to build forms with three to four times as many fields.
My long forms never look pretty and it would be nice to see some templates or best practices put on display.

28 November 2007 | programming, web design | No Comments

Free SnagIt

update… I fixed the link to the SnagIt serial # site. 
At one of my previous client’s, we used SnagIt heavily. I relied on the screen-capturing program so much it was the first thing I purchased when I left. It’s perfect for documenting changes to the UI.
People have been asking me “how do you get those [...]

28 November 2007 | general | No Comments

Experts

I will admit that from time-to-time, I consider myself a Lotus Notes expert. I then read a blog (or talk to colleagues) and quickly realize that I’m still the Lotus Notes village idiot.
I just read a great blog called Where do Experts Come From? The author summarizes a study of Chess Grandmasters which says that [...]

27 November 2007 | general, lotus, programming, web design | No Comments

Hole in the Wall Hosting

I’m going to make a quick plug for my host, holeinthewallhosting.com. You can’t beat it for $10 a year. The support is great. They quickly added my CNAME and MX entries for Google Apps. I’m really happy with them.
Users who sign up for the service through this link will receive an extra 100MB disk space [...]

27 November 2007 | general | 1 Comment