Monthly Archives: December 2008

2008 in Retrospect

Posted on December 31, 2008 by mattias

In this post I will list a couple of things I think was interesting, significant or the bomb during 2008. In no way is this list full and I probably missed something such as the birth of a new internet … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Twitter Tweets Weekly Updates for 2008-12-28

Posted on December 28, 2008 by mattias

RT @jeresig jQuery 1.3 beta is out http://tinyurl.com/ay6g2t # I just bought @psvensson book Learning Dojo http://tinyurl.com/8nqmqn # anyone else who uses FeedBurner site stats? I feel they give me a quick overview on my visitor stats. # I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Tweets | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

WP-JSON – JSON Syndication for your WordPress Blog

Posted on December 19, 2008 by mattias

I have just finished a very simple plugin that enables JSON-syndication for blogs running on WordPress. You can test the output on this blog. http://frontendbook.com/feed/json/?callback=? (content-type:application/json) Find out more Plugin home Github Readme Why I think JSON is a very powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, JavaScript | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Nice Piece on Call To Action Buttons

Posted on December 17, 2008 by mattias

This just got tweeted around. Nice overview on what a Call To Action should do and examples on some nice ones actually doing the job well. Read more at Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons

Posted in Design | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Recession Reality Check for Web Developers

Posted on December 11, 2008 by mattias

Ok, Yahoo is laying off people in big numbers, and every day we hear about the health of the world economy. I think it is clear to everyone, this is more than a sneeze, it is recession hitting us hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Web Development | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Amazon EC2 Now Available in Europe

Posted on December 10, 2008 by mattias

I just got a letter stating: We are excited to announce that we have extended Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Europe. Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the EU to help achieve lower … Continue reading →

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Missed GeekMeet, but got 3 from Heilmann anyway

Posted on December 5, 2008 by mattias

I missed GeekMeet yesterday because I “had” to join in on the company pool tournament and free-beer thing, but lucky enough we had the opportunity to listening in on Chris Heilemann not once, not twice but three times today. He made … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

3 Ways To Use Twitter – spamming is not one of them

Posted on December 4, 2008 by mattias

How do you use Twitter? I am increasing my use of Twitter. I have been trying to figure out whether or not I like Twitter as a daily tool, and I am leaning towards a positive answer. As I see … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Web 2.0 | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Unobtrusive Form Enhancements

Posted on December 3, 2008 by mattias

I have had an idea for some time, writing a jQuery plugin that enhances the user experience on forms unobtrusively. I started playing with my plugin jForm but development have halted, and I need inspiration. The goal with the plugin … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript | Tagged , , | Leave a comment