Archive for July, 2009

Create a Simple Image Slide Show using jQuery

I have seen a lot of users requesting for simple jQuery scripts for SlideShows. I saw a couple of them, but the scripts assumed that the number of image tags has to be fixed beforehand.
I thought of making an attempt at a real simple SlideShow script using jQuery. Here’s what I came up with 5 [...]

Ideas are cheap, development easy, so why aren’t we rich?

This isn’t an article about my experience, it’s not an article to promote anything I have, and by no means is this meant to tell you what you should think. In fact, this has nothing to do with me, and I have nothing to gain by it. Does that make you feel better [...]

Accessing protected URL in Java

Simplest way to accessing protected URL in plain java

Atari’s iPhone Killer

The Atari Portfolio, ahead of its time.

20 Inspiring Website Designs

Having a great-looking site is probably the best method of attracting the attention of your visitors to your services – This is true for whichever industry you’re in – However if you’re a web design company or freelancer, then having a top looking site is a requirement.

8 Development Rules on How to Fail Less – Rule #1

This series is a collaboration between a project manager and a developer, who together have built some massive design and development projects landing on both ends of the spectrum of success. We’ve experienced apocalyptic fails and epic wins, and we’ve also survived assaults from scope-creep monsters controlled by unreasonable budget aliens. We have even been [...]

5 CSS tricks with lists

Here are some creative ways to style unordered (ul), ordered (ol) or definition (dl) lists. Take a look at the demo for what we’re going to do.

Seven Lies Freelancers Tell Themselves

There’s no doubt that freelancing can be tough — freelancers face many obstacles. From finding clients, to meeting deadlines, to keeping skills and equipment current, all the way to being paid: freelancing just isn’t easy.

6 Things You Need for Your Web Project to Succeed

Being at an age where I’m just beginning to carve my path in the real world, I tend to have many peers and co-workers who constantly think about making an income besides sitting in front of the computer eight to ten hours a day in a windowless room.

First look at Google Wave developer sandbox (Part 1)

Two days after I got my invitation to the Ubuntu One beta and wrote a review about my first impressions I also received an invitation to join the Google Wave developer sandbox. As my Ubuntu One review was pretty popular (had about 1k pageviews the first day – thank you dzone.com users), I decided to [...]