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Development

Use Twitter, Facebook, OAuth or OpenID for login?

Now that OAuth is officially available for accessing the Twitter API, it’s technically possible to use Twitter’s services as an authentication method for logging into your web site. In fact, when setting up a new Twitter OAuth application, there’s an option suggesting that very use.

This is not a new concept, but with the recent proliferation [...]

Read the full article → April 22, 2009

Meet in the middle

I’ve been struggling with an overall concept for quite some time that relates to web development and web usage. The problem is that for all of the great innovations that have already occurred since Netscape made the internet accessible, there is still a long way to go before an average person can truly participate in [...]

Read the full article → April 14, 2009

Setting focus on first form element with jQuery

When you display a form, it’s always a nice practice to ensure that the first element of the form has focus as soon as the user can interact with the page. For example, if you went to Google’s homepage and had to click in the search box before you could start typing your question, it [...]

Read the full article → April 7, 2009

The right tools

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Mark Twain

I recently took down a pool fence. It required cutting sections of steel fencing, removing rusty nuts from large bolts in the ground and walls, and cutting bolts. I had been delaying this job for a long time because I’m not a handyman and [...]

Read the full article → March 31, 2009

Apache? IIS? Niether … NGiNX

For many years, I was under the mistaken impression that there were basically two web server choices, Apache and IIS. My belief was founded in the fact that these were the only two I had ever used — not a very good foundation, I know.
My eyes have been opened recently and I have found that [...]

Read the full article → March 30, 2009

Learn CSS

In yesterday’s post, Geeking out, I forgot to mention the most important concept for both web designers and web developers to learn: CSS. Designers probably already understand the advantages, but developers implementing any complex functionality for a web site really need to know CSS today because of the client-side Javascript libraries that depend on CSS.
More [...]

Read the full article → March 27, 2009

Geeking out

I’ve enjoyed geeking out the past few days, but the example I wanted to show today is taking longer than I had expected, so I have to delay that one. I’m going to do more mini-tutorials and examples over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
If you’re new to this site, please take a look [...]

Read the full article → March 26, 2009

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