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 [...]

If you work in a secure(ish) environment then you'll be changing passwords on a regular basis. An old colleague and I came up with a script that would generate a password based on fictional words from a dictionary lookup. Then we/he realised that this could actually be generated on the fly, be completely random and still [...]

Adobe hit London yesterday with their on AIR tour and I had a seat. I'd been initially interested in AIR last year when I realised it was be a good entry point to developing a desktop app for the Mac (I've dabbled in Objective-C - but I can't get my head around the square brackets!) Overall [...]