http://remysharp.com About [code] and all that jazz Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:10:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been looking for a small hosting provider that I could run [node.js](http://nodejs.org) on to test out some WebSocket experiments, and this is my account so that you also can have a play. I should add before I continue, that it's not difficult by any measure if you know what you're ... http://remysharp.com/2010/02/14/slicehost-nodejs-websockets/ First of all I wanted to make the title of this post "HTML5 *and* Flash", but I know it's going to bait more readers if I say versus. I should state for the record that for the foreseeable future I think Flash has a valid place on the web, and ... http://remysharp.com/2010/02/08/html5-vs-flash/ I'm a little late to the game of year reviews (since we're a few days in), but this blog was originally designed to supplement my memory, so I'm going to brain-dump my year, more for me, but also for you (if you're interested!). Here's what I got up to ... http://remysharp.com/2010/01/03/goodnight-2009/ Last Friday I saw through the very first [Full Frontal JavaScript conference](http://full-frontal.org). An idea that was born back on a snowy day in February, with me complaining there was no conferences dedicated to JavaScript (anymore) and [my wife, Julie](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remysharp/4124570521/in/set-72157622854415414/) telling simply replying with *let's do it* (it helps that by ... http://remysharp.com/2009/11/26/full-frontal-javascript-2009/ Users of Twitter created the idiom "RT @suchnsuch said sumfink", and as with @ replies, RT's have been rolled in to Twitter's architecture. Now we have, what I think should be called, the native retweet. It was turned on for early users and more of the "twittersphere" is getting the ... http://remysharp.com/2009/11/19/native-retweets/ Today is Monday. In 4 days time JavaScripters from across the UK and Europe will be coming together for the UK based JavaScript conference: Full Frontal. After being at [JSConf.eu](http://jsconf.eu/ "JSConf.eu - The JavaScript Conference") last weekend, I couldn't be more excited about getting a community of front end ... http://remysharp.com/2009/11/16/going-full-frontal-in-one-week/ I use Google Analytics for my web sites, you might use [Mint](http://haveamint.com/) or something else bespoke, but if you're using JavaScript to track those stats (as Google does), you're not capturing how many users you have that *don't* have JavaScript installed. I've written a plugin which I'll share with ... http://remysharp.com/2009/10/15/the-missing-stat-noscript/ If you've not noticed already the search in Twitter has been downgraded to 7 days history. In fact, that changed some time ago. I've had the good fortune to be able to ask Twitter employees directly about the history via attending [Devnest](http://twitterdevelopernest.com/) and I've been assured the history ... http://remysharp.com/2009/09/16/a-better-twitter-search/ This last week has been a huge social/talky/knowledge festival for me. It comprised of [dConstruct 2009](http://2009.dconstruct.org/ "dConstruct 2009") and my first attendance at any barcamp: [Barcamp Brighton 4](http://www.barcampbrighton.org/ "BarCampBrighton – 5th & 6th September 2009"). ## dConstruct Workshop: jQuery for Designers I ran the jQuery for Designers workshop at dConstruct this year ... http://remysharp.com/2009/09/07/dconstruct-2009-barcamp-brighton-4/ I recently released [a way to enter to win a ticket](https://twitter.com/fullfrontalconf/status/3226112563) for [Full Frontal](http://full-frontal.org), but I'm particularly guilty of only sending things through [Twitter](http://twitter.com) lately, and I know [not everyone uses Twitter](http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/html-5-doctor-sitepoint-article/) (see dull meta), so I need to make sure I'm not ignoring my *regular* readers: you! ## Free ticket ... http://remysharp.com/2009/08/19/win-a-ticket-for-the-full-frontal-javascript-conference/ In finding that the legend element [simply doesn't work](http://remysharp.com/2009/07/31/legend-not-such-a-legend-anymore/) inside both details and figure, myself [and](http://adactio.com) [others](http://brucelawson.co.uk) been keen to find a solution. Ian Hickson [has said](http://remysharp.com/2009/07/31/legend-not-such-a-legend-anymore/#comment-166653): > I am leaning towards keeping the language sane (not introducing yet another element that basically means "header" or "important" or "caption"), at the cost ... http://remysharp.com/2009/08/12/saving-figure-detail/ The more I [test HTML 5](http://html5doctor.com) and the more I [play around in the DOM](http://html5demos.com), the more I find odd situations that will trigger particular bugs. The one result I'm seeing is what I'm now referring to as a *vomit* bug. ## Definition Vomit bug When the browser's parser ... http://remysharp.com/2009/08/10/defining-the-vomit-bug/ Lately I decided I was going to recreate the interactive features of the details element using JavaScript (apparently [the same day](http://twitter.com/adactio/status/2869549874) as fellow Brightonian [Jeremy Keith](http://adactio.com/ "Adactio: Jeremy Keith")). However I ran in to some very serious issues with the tag combined with the legend element, so serious, in it's current ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/31/legend-not-such-a-legend-anymore/ I've been using [Twitpic](http://twitpic.com/photos/rem) either via [TwitterFon](http://twitterfon.net/ "TwitterFon - Simple, Clean, and Fast Twitter Client for iPhone and iPod Touch") on my iPhone or [Tweetie](http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/) from my desktop for [Twitter](http://twitter.com/rem), but one thing struck me last night: [Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out](http://twitter.com/rem/status/2725763132). So here's my fix: ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/20/twitpic-api-for-getting-pictures-out/ I wanted to let you know, my dear reader, what I've been up to lately, but more over that I'm going to start cross posting my other articles to this blog. ## HTML 5 Doctor If you've not seen it already through Twitter or colleagues blogs, HTML 5 Doctor is a tutorial ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/10/new-projects-more-writing-more-speaking/ Sometimes I find myself using the same event handler for more than one event on an element. Typically I just put the function in the global name space (or perhaps privately within the scope of the ready function depending on how the mood takes me), and then I'll refer to ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/08/jquery-multibinding-events/ A little while ago I was involved in a conversation with someone about being able to have a button on your computer to trigger a rimshot noise, or a 'wah-wah-wahhh' (yes, of course I was in a pub). I pondered this for a few minutes, thinking it could be done using ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/06/rimshot-with-html5/ We all know Google engineers are working away a stuff that's so amazing they have to wait a couple of years before releasing it otherwise it'll blow our minds up (Gmail, maps, etc). That said, they've released functionality tucked away inside the search results page that I never knew existed. Full ... http://remysharp.com/2009/07/01/google-assistive-technology-detection/ @font-face is definitely a huge string to the CSS author's bow, in fact, it's like a freekin' flamin' arrow, but watch out, Safari isn't very nice to slow connections. I recently peaked my total broadband usage and as a slap me down, my ISP, Plusnet, put me on about a 6Kb ... http://remysharp.com/2009/06/23/safaris-problem-with-font-face/ I've built a number of different mini-apps for Twitter, and run in to [various](http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9a6f85e8beac68f5) [API](http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/3e87ad44d63835d8/a2828dd9758323a9?lnk=gst&q=remy#a2828dd9758323a9) [limitations](http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/2f0f10cae3cf6824) [that](http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/e1a61d579dca9300/cb65a0ad8f7ddcfe?lnk=gst&q=remy#cb65a0ad8f7ddcfe) I've not been [happy](http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/506cda469e9cfe2a/7d673932ee666c1b?lnk=gst&q=remy#7d673932ee666c1b) with (equally, Twitter did add the favourite count and fix the auth issue on favs). Twitter avatars is one of those annoyances. If you've built an app that caches ... http://remysharp.com/2009/06/02/twivatar-a-twitter-avatar-api/