If you've written any kind of validation on user input, like onkeypress then you'll know that sometimes you want to throttle the amount of times your function runs. A good example of this is Ajax based username validation - you don't want to hit the server on every key press, because most users will be [...]

I've been looking for a small hosting provider that I could run node.js on to test out some WebSocket experiments, and this is my account so that you also can have a play.

I use Google Analytics for my web sites, you might use Mint 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 you and also explain how [...]

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 and I've been assured the history is being kept. That doesn't solve [...]

I recently released a way to enter to win a ticket for Full Frontal, but I'm particularly guilty of only sending things through Twitter lately, and I know not everyone uses Twitter (see dull meta), so I need to make sure I'm not ignoring my regular readers: you!

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

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 a bookmarklet and an overkill [...]