Archive for February, 2006


Why Submit your site to Directories

This little Internet Directory overview, profiles DMOZ and Yahoo and shows you how to get your website crawled by google quickly. Its a pretty good overview of how the 2 directories are run and shows you how easy it is to get listed.

CSS Tips and Tricks

Buildng a good CSS is often a time consuming and painfull process, and you often end up just copying an old one you have on hand and modifying it. In order to build one right first time take a look at these hand CSS tips and tricks.
If you are feeling alittle more adventurous, check out [...]

Mac Book Pro Pics

So you want a Mac Book Pro but dont want to shell out the cash before seeing a unit in the flesh. Well here they are, damn i should get commision from Apple for loving their products so much!

Community Walk

Community Walk is a simple google maps mashup that allows you to plot just about anything and save the locations to your profile. This allows you to map places you ahve visited or holidays you have had, and save the page for your friends to view.
Simple yet clever…
Check out this walk of the Winter Olympics.

JS frameworks

Stumbled apon these great resources for designing rich Ajax applications. Rico is the first and allows you to build drag and drop type interfaces, check out their samples page. Rico is built on the Prototype javascript framework and is related to the script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries which [...]

Plot Trains - Google maps style

I live near to a train station at the moment, and I can tell you exactly when trains are on time or not, based on how frequently my walls shake, but this mashup of the Dublin train routes is pretty usefull ( if you ever travel to Dublin that is).
Its a simple demo of how [...]

iBurst Proxy problems

It looks as though iBurst have installed a new Squid proxy in Johannesburg. From what I can see they have’nt done it very well, as the timeout is too short, and many international websites only work on the second refresh.
I think this is compounded by their seeming lack of bandwidth that users have been complaining [...]

Ajax Agent

Hello Developers:
AJAX AGENT is a very easy to use, yet very powerful open source toolkit for rapidly building AJAX or Rich Internet Applications (RIA). For the PHP version, it takes only three lines of code to invoke a remote scripting call. Remote scripting is an integral part of AJAX. Check the following code [...]

MythTV How To…

PVR’s are popular at the moment, so I thought i would highlight an alternative to the DSVT unit currently availible.
MythTV is a Linux based PVR that has all of the features of a comercial unit and many that they didnt think of.
Jarod Wilson has put together a great How to on getting MythTV running on [...]

Image Cross Fader

I stumbled apon this great little JavaScript Image Cross Fader today. Looks quite cool and might be usefull.
And another Web 2.0 roundup thats quite clever.
“I want to…” or “I need to” or “How do I?” These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help [...]