Pixelbox

This-morning I had to quickly run up some questions for someone’s second interview. We were looking for someone with good front end knowledge, so I knocked up some questions to ask them. I found these were very good at getting them talking, and gave them a lot of potential to show they had a strong [...]

Recently I needed an method for displaying error messages that was nicer than alert boxes, unobtrusive and generic. I wanted to be able to output errors from PHP in the HTML that could then be displayed in an eye catching way, but also use the same method to display errors from JavaScript. This way you [...]

Last night I spent about half an hour I should have spend a long time ago, installing a plug in to display my recent links from del.icio.us (social bookmarking). It was fairly easy, I downloaded a script for displaying RSS feeds, changed the link and called if from inside an un-ordered list on my side [...]

I was in a meeting today with Aral Balkan looking into future development of one of our products, and was introduced to my first industrial experience of Extreme Programming. Personally I come from an SSADM background at university and XP is more or less the complete other end of the spectrum. I feel SSADM is [...]

Again I find myself running into problems with IE, today its with it’s DOM support. I recently wrote some JavaScript to look at a links href attribute to detect if the link was external or not (the existence of HTTP:// would show it was external). The problem was that Internet Explorer showed the absolute href [...]