Category Archives: Web Development

JavaOne 2009 Day 3 – My Input

By Mattias Hising | Published: June 4, 2009
Alternative Languages on the JVM™ Machine OK, I am the first to admit that this session was not something I enjoyed. The quality of the presentation was probably ok, but I shouldnt have been there in the first place, I was looking forward to see a presentation on jRuby and other cool langugages implemented on top [...]
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JavaOne 2009 Day 2 – My Input

By Mattias Hising | Published: June 3, 2009
Google Web Toolkit I started out day 2 of JavaOne attending a session on Google Web Toolkit, GWT is one of those things I do not know if I actually like. On one hand it is a cool framework that makes a lot of UI coding unecessary, but on the other hand black-box-solutions is not my [...]
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JavaOne 2009 Day 1 – My Input

By Mattias Hising | Published: June 2, 2009
After a busy day of flying (and some beers) yesterday I am at the first day of JavaOne in San Francisco today with my fellow colleagues. I am going to tweet my findings continuosly, make sure you follow me on Twitter. Below I have some short input on the sessions I attended the first day: Ajaxifying [...]
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Swedish Web Developer Conference 2009

By Mattias Hising | Published: April 22, 2009
I am writing this to tip you about the Swedish Web Developer Conference 2009 that are being held in Stockholm (Kista) on the 25th of May. The Conference focus on helping web developers and web designers getting into things such as Dojo, jQuery and CSS, with some really great speakers lined up. The conference [...]
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Weekly Best of – Selected Links

By Mattias Hising | Published: March 14, 2009
Auto Resize jQuery Plugin I really like Facebooks implementation of automatic expanding textareas. This auto resize plugin for jQuery helps you add that neat usable effect to your forms. Typography on the web Smashing Magazine has a really good list of resources for web typography. API for Location based on IP I think we have only seen the beginning of [...]
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GreaseMonkey Twitter Enhancer

By Mattias Hising | Published: January 11, 2009
I just published the first draft of a GreaseMonkey script for Twitter. I tweet frequently http://twitter.com/hising and sometimes I do it via the web (using Firefox) and there are some things I have come to be really annoyed about, first that the web do not automagically link hashtags to their search.So the first thing I [...]
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Is it on?

By Mattias Hising | Published: January 9, 2009
Pretty funny day today. It all started with Christian Heilmann posting this on Twitter: Another simple, but very useful and needed web site: http://ismycomputeron.com And Dion Almaer who runs Ajaxian.com followed up with the question we all had: We just need a JSON version and then we are all set! Of course Heilmann wrote a JSON API for [...]
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Recession Reality Check for Web Developers

By Mattias Hising | Published: December 11, 2008
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 and fast all over the world. Of course this will become reality even for people [...]
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Amazon EC2 Now Available in Europe

By Mattias Hising | Published: December 10, 2008
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 latency, operate closer to other resources like Amazon S3 in the EU, and meet EU data [...]
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Web Standards vs. Reality

By Mattias Hising | Published: November 12, 2008
Some people in the web development/web design/front-end development industry would rather be caught on tape stealing food from small children than admit they pollute the web with websites that do not meet standards when it comes to markup, stylesheet and javascript. I break these standards on a regular basis, and apparently a lot of other people [...]
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