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Archive for October, 2007

Will iTunes allow you to rip DVDs?

In a conversation with my father about how best to import his films to his newly purchased iPod, it occurred to me: surely ripping DVDs is a natural next step for iTunes?

The Hack Stops Here

In my view there are two types of hacks: Solutions that solve a problem that can't be solved any other way (i.e. due to a limitation within a browser). Solutions to business created problems. Hacks for the first type are acceptable. They go where no other code can go, and are a requirement. As such these [...]

What is JSONP?

jQuery 1.2 introduced JSONP support, but on initial read of the release notes, I wasn't completely sure what it was - so for anyone else that might want the Dr Seuss explanation. JSONP is script tag injection, passing the response from the server in to a user specified function

FOWA 2007 - followup

The FOWA conference ran for two days from the 3rd of Oct. My focus was very much the developer track, though perhaps I'll visit next year and sit on some of the entrepreneur sessions.

FOWA 2007

I'm off to the Future of Web Apps and following on from dConstruct, I have high expectations. I've looked through the line up, and I'm 99% certain that I'll be spending all my time watching the developer's floor - some pretty interesting stuff (which I hope to write a few notes up later on in the [...]

Catch click events before the DOM is loaded

I'm currently working on a project that's heavily JavaScript driven. One of the key goals of the project is to get the user to click a bright yellow button (I won't go in to any more detail than that). The button is perfect, it's eye catching and when you see it, you just want to [...]