I have to thank Paul Newman for making Cool Hand Luke, not because it’s a great ’60s film about non-conformism and the divide between old and young, free spirits and the establishment.. but because without it I’d probably have been named Jacob or something equally wack. Read the rest of RIP Paul Newman and his Plastic Jesus

Filed under: Cool Hand Luke on September 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

jQuery ftw! Read the rest of UI Trends Death Match!

Filed under: Web Applications on September 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

Jquery has a handy way of allowing you to do stuff as soon as the document object model for a page has loaded (ie. as soon as the browser has loaded all your markup). I’m currently working on a project that requires Prototype JS, and I had some difficulty finding the equivalent method.. hence this post.

I knew Prototype had evolved somewhat since I’d last used it extensively back in… Read the rest of jQuery, document.ready and the Prototype equivalent

Filed under: Web Applications on September 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

So on Saturday talk began to circulate that we were in for a big bout of stormage. Around 2pm some big winds kicked up and a couple of whales parked themselves in front of the harbour and began energetically waving their tales in the air whilst behind them the palm trees on the main road waved back. Read the rest of Cape Town Storm Photos 30 - 31 August 2008 : Kalk Bay Pictures

Filed under: General on September 2nd, 2008 | 16 Comments »