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 have [...]

My first flex app has been having some IE support issues. Mainly errors with making SOAP calls, but it was unclear if they were related to something else not loading. Which made the RIA not work, on IE but on everything else.
My first port of call was the Object tag, as IE is the only [...]

Yesterday I had a problem with Gmail where I couldn’t get to my in box. I though this would pass but it didn’t and other people in the office were getting on fine.
I started by clearing my cache and flushing my DNS but it still didn’t work on Safari, Firefox, Flock or Omniweb, even adium [...]

Over the last few days at work I had some time to get creative with Google maps. I was asked to implement google maps in a pop up window, which having never done before I expected would take a fair amount of time. However implementing what we had seen on another site was more or [...]