I was writing up some notes for my next guest spot on the Lab with Leo next week (which will appropriately be about comparing and contrasting AJAX frameworks) when I realized that I probably shouldn’t let all this research and paraphrasing work that I’ve put together go to waste. Most of it won’t make [...]

After spending the last few months hacking away at the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI), I’ve figured out how to do a few things that are pretty much undocumented. The YUI TabView component, specifically, is a pretty slick control with a very lightweight structure and simple, elegant markup. On the other hand, customizing a TabView [...]

Well, I was bored a couple of weekends ago and decided I’d try and replicate the del.icio.us tag cloud used in the navigation bar on radar.oreilly.com. After I got it working, I figured I’d release it as a WordPress plugin so that everyone can take advantage of what I think is a cool representation [...]

Well, it seems there’s some interest (at least from fellow Dreamhosters) in my updates to the PHP flickr gallery plug-in for WordPress. Basically, all I did was replace the remote fopen() calls with libcurl calls. The original plug-in was written by Ramon Darrow and can be downloaded here. Thanks to Ramon for making it available [...]

Well, my ISP decided to disable remote fopen() calls in PHP today. I can see why, considering it’s a pretty big security hole in PHP.
Looks like I had my hosting account’s e-mail notifications set to only the highest priority (why this wasn’t high priority, I have no idea /boggle), so I didn’t see the original [...]