A new version of the jQuery Easing Plugin has been released. On the one hand, it’s still the best plugin ever. On the other hand, they changed all the names. Now they are a little more “techie”. easeInCirc, easeInOutSine. Am I supposed to know what that means? I am sure there is some math involved. …
In my never-ending project to upgrade Katie to the latest greatest technology, I have come up against an old piece of software. Microsoft Outlook 2007. The time has come to retire this vestige of 20th century programming. The thick client must go! Thin Web client must come in. Gmail is providing the Email part. Google…
Updated Once Latest Greatest (8/27/08) I have been working on an email template to use for a future design tool. Emails, if you don’t know, are not as easy to design as web pages. They are viewed in a wider variety of clients. Some of these clients are downright evil. I feel like I have…
http://mike.teczno.com/img/right-triangles/RightTriangles.swf Grab the fingers with your mouse and walk the image across the page. No real world usefulness, but it’s sure fun.
WordPress 2.3 is out. I downloaded it and upgraded. Bam! I was going to wait for the fantastico upgrade, but decided to just push the envelope. The upgrade process is so smooth and pain free. I really have to hand it to those guys, this is a great product. I admit I haven’t used all…
Ethan’s teacher, Mr. Fidner has this posted on the classroom wall. He also has pictures of inspirational people like John Lennon and Ghandi. I like Mr. Fidner. I consider myself a crazy one. Here’s to the crazy ones.The misfits.The rebels.The troublemakers.The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.They’re not fond…
I recently have been working on a new API Browser for jQuery. It’s been a pet project in the back of my mind for some time. I thought I could create a better mousetrap, if only I could get over the programming hump. So finally, last week, I took a few tentative steps forward. First,…
I was recently asked: I was wondering if you could tell me if there is a “proper” or generally acceptable way to denote required fields on a form. Label* Field *Label Field Label *Field I don’t think the Form Police will arrest you if you do #2 or #3. However, they will arrest you for…
jQuery has announced a new user interface components package called jQuery UI. It is a pretty impressive set of widgets and components to make a rich user interface. It also consolidates alot of various plugins for a consistent development effort. I think it’s an awesome start and will continue to get better. Looking at the…
I have been frustrated with maintaining the podcast player on Marketo.com. See example on this page. (Click Podcast on the left). The UX was good, in that it zoomed up gracefully and played. However, the pain was on the backend. I had to encode each mp3 as a SWF file for it to work. I…
I am seeing a trend. It seems all the new good software is from Google. Recently, I realized that I read alot of blogs. I was getting annoyed that I had to go to so many different sites to read them, so I finally decided I need a “Feed Aggregator“. I took a quick look…
The technology is getting better and better. Google is announcing a version of PowerPoint and Wiki software in the next few weeks/months. I think this is a turning point for the industry. I have already started using Google Spreadsheets and have been a paying customer of Picasa. We just switched our entire family calendar to…
Autocomplete is one of those UI widgets that can revolutionize an application. Jörn Zaefferer has developed a beautiful lightweight version of autocomplete for jQuery. In my Marketo app, I am heavily using Jack Slocum’s EXT autocomplete. Once I introduced it, it really eliminated alot of complexity, not to mention modal dialogs. As a UI tool,…
This is a great effect for a menu, with lots of easy customization. It’s called LavaLamp. (jQuery Plugin) I wonder if it could be made into a vertical menu. I would use it on the top left of this page. Sometimes, I marvel at the creativeness of some people. This effect isn’t something I could…