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AJAX Push in iOS, Safari, and Chrome with Server-Sent Events

2010-10-09T15:00:00.000-07:00

@import "http://samshull.com/sh/sh_style.css"; One of the many new APIs of HTML5 is Server-Sent Events. Server-Sent Events are a lot like long-polling. They work like this: establish a connection to the server from the client, send data from the server to the client in pieces, and if the connection is severed re-establish the connection from the client to the server and continue sending

Promote JS!

2010-09-27T18:47:00.000-07:00

If you care about being able to find good documentation for JavaScript, you should check out Mozilla's Promote JS campaign. As Chris Heilman points out in his article highlighting why being able to find good documentation for JavaScript is so important, W3Schools usually makes it to the top of the list. Which is great for W3Schools, and they do provide a decent reference for the already

Sony should be leveraging their hardware to deliver their media

2010-09-10T18:33:00.000-07:00

Since I have been ranting recently, I thought I would keep up the trend by sharing my thoughts on what I think is the biggest failing to capitalize on existing market share in recent history, namely Sony. Sony is in to everything, and I mean everything. They make a list of consumer electronic devices longer than my arm. Everything from TVs, to video disc players (Blu-Ray and DVD), music players

Big ISPs can offer services that protect net neutrality and the bottom line

2010-09-08T20:43:00.000-07:00

I read an article a while back, before Google and Verizon actually announced their psuedo net neutrality plan, about what Google and Verizon might be cooking up that didn't violate net neutrality "technically," but still allowed Google to reach users faster. In the article, the author theorizes that Google maybe trying to reach a deal to get their self-contained data centers closer to Verizon

CSS Transform Functions Need More Work

2010-09-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

I wonder how many people writing CSS look at the transforms spec and wonder why it doesn't have an long-hand property names like "transform-scale" or "transform-rotate". It really reminds me of the old Microsoft specs for their Visual Filters. Is Apple really the new Microsoft? When did the W3C start changing the property arguments convention? Don't get me wrong, I think the short-hand version

How to jQExtensions

2010-08-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

Recently I have received a few questions on how to perform certain tasks using jQExtensions and I thought it would be a good idea to highlight a few of them here in hopes that it will help more people out. Setup For the purpose of these examples #myphoto will reference a jQTouch Photo Gallery created by the following call jQT.generateGallery("myphoto", [/*images*/], {/*options*/}); and #

Prefix or PostHack, or Both

2010-07-13T20:33:00.000-07:00

The entire debate about "Prefix or PostHack" is going down the wrong path. With PPK going so far as to suggest that vendor prefixes should be completely eliminated or simplified into a single extension (though he did recant a little), and Eric Meyer rebutting that CSS before vendor prefixes was effectively a living nightmare. The REAL problem is not whether or not vendor prefixes should be used,

Support for jQTouch Photo Gallery and Extensions

2010-07-08T20:07:00.000-07:00

A couple people have expressed interest in donating to show their support for the work on jQTouch Photo Gallery. So feel free to contribute, your graditude is always appreciated, and it is definitely a motivator to keep sharing. Or feel free to submit patches and suggestions, they are appreciated as well. Thanks.

jQTouch Photo Gallery

2010-06-15T22:17:00.000-07:00

I just uploaded a new Photo Gallery extension for jQTouch to the jqextensions project, along with a completely revamped version of the jQTouch inertia scrolling/sliding/fixed toolbar extension. It was quite an experience building the photo gallery extension, and the updates to the scrolling extension were pretty exciting for me. New features in the scrolling extension include: an optional

Why you should use an autoload function in PHP

2010-02-20T09:40:00.000-08:00

The loading of classes is something that managed languages like Java and C# don't need to worry about, class loaders are built into the compiler. But C/C++ programmers have always had to deal with the issue of accidentally including the same file into a build. They found an easy way around that by wrapping some includes in an #ifndef CONSTANT #include 'myfile.h' #endifand placing #ifndef CONSTANT

Sam Shull: PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2009

2010-02-20T08:42:00.000-08:00

The PHP community at phpclasses.org has honored me with the PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2009. I am humbled that the international PHP community has shown such great appreciation for my endeavors and community contributions. I think that the hard work of Manuel Lemos at phpclasses has a very positive effect on the PHP community in providing a centralized place to share experiences and

Cross Browser ECMAScript for XML (E4X)

2010-02-17T21:48:00.000-08:00

I have written a cross browser compatible implementation of E4X. Well, when I say cross browser, I mean that it is capable of handling the methodical implementation of the specification, not the syntactical parts. Many of the key features that make E4X so useful are hard, if not impossible, to reproduce in other javascript engines. But what can be reproduced is the simplicity and namespace

Thoughts on XHP

2010-02-11T19:44:00.000-08:00

I am really happy to hear that Facebook has now officially released XHP, an E4X type of implementation for PHP. My initial thoughts are that PHP was built as a templating engine, and so this innovative approach to templating will only help solidify PHP as the best templating engine for the web. But after reading Rasmus' take on the performance hit that you might sustain from using XHP, I'm not so

Extensions to jQTouch

2010-02-10T20:33:00.000-08:00

A few months back I discovered jQTouch by Dave Kaneda, which is a pretty amazing framework for building mobile WebKit based web apps. It's still in beta, but the animations are very robust, and it is easily extended. And so I set out to write a few extensions that would make jQTouch act more like a native iPhone app. My initial goal was to write an extension that would enable the same type of

Proprietary CSS extensions for targeting individual browsers and versions

2009-09-08T20:05:00.000-07:00

I know that there are hacks for targeting different versions of IE: * star in front means IE7, _ underscore in front means IE6 and below, \ Escaping any letter within the property name which isn't in the range a-f, A-F, 0-9 will hide that rule from IE 5.x, -ms is IE8 vendor prefix / forward slash in front of a property is ignored by ie, but causes other browsers to ignore line But what about

Digg bookmarklet for the iPhone

2009-09-07T10:21:00.000-07:00

To add a bookmarklet to the iPhone click on the "Digg This" link below, you will see this page again. Then bookmark the page in your iPhone. Then you will have to go into your bookmarks and edit the bookmark, remove " document.write(location.href.substring(0, location.href.indexOf('?') > -1 ? location.href.indexOf('?') : location.href.length)) ?" from the bookmark URI. Now to

iPhone friendly Blogger template change

2009-09-05T18:56:00.000-07:00

If you would like to make your Blogger template more iPhone friendly, try adding the following lines of code: