As jQuery for Designers continued to grow in interest, so did the video downloads. The main problem my server faced was that when a large influx of traffic came in all at once, say if Smashing Magazine publishes a post covering a couple of tutorials, all the apache processes would be busy serving up 30Mb video [...]

A friend and colleague, Chris, has recently launched a gaming network site: Thumbslap which allows friends and the like to organise game meet ups online (or offline if they wish). Pretty early on I could see how Microformats, particularly the hCalendar should be applied, but what Chris really wanted to do the job was an automatic [...]

I've been doing screencasts for jQuery for designers for almost 6 months now, and I'm a big fan of peer learning/teaching - which I hope to achieve through screencasts. I'd like to share some tips that I've come to use in each session I run that might be helpful for budding screencasters. Apologies as I'm [...]

This one is just for the designers and developer who have the painful task of skinning existing widgets to make them integrate tightly with their applications (or more likely: their employer's app): ThemeRoller.

I received a beta invite today to test out the Silverback app from Clearleft. Somehow chosen out of a hat (I know can't be true, because I could never fit in a normal sized hat...unless perhaps if it were a really stretchy beanie...I digress), I've now given it a play and sent my testing [...]

This is something that I've been include in my personal projects for some time now, but it's come up again for a client, so I thought I'd share: The optimum browser dimensions are not: 800x600 or even 1024x768. You're close, but wrong. Here's why.

Personally I think that OpenID is the next best thing since sliced bread. I plan to use it on all my personal projects and advocate it whenever I can. However, when I have to explain OpenID, and if they understood, it then raises a foray of debate - which is fine, but I don't want to [...]