Setting Up My Own URL Shortening Service

As I recently mentioned (on Twitter, does that really count?), I’m not a fan of URL shortening services. I don’t like the idea of trusting the value of links pointing to my sites to a third party. Especially since the URL shortening space itself is so sketchy. With that in mind, it was with interest […]

While Twitter is Down…

I thought I’d (gently) toss some links at you: I read an Introduction to sessionStorage a couple of weeks ago. I approve. As it stands, I’m always storing bits of data in globally accessible places (either in the DOM or in a namespaced Data object,) and I always have to document what I’m doing so […]

The Palm webOS SDK is Now Open To All. Get Your Mojo On!

Announcing webOSdev I’m very pleased to announce that effective today we are wrapping up the webOS early access program. We are doing this because today we opened up the program to everyone and released our new public developer portal at http://developer.palm.com. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of […]

Of Interest- the Google Chrome Operating System

Between Palm letting me code directly on a killer handheld device, HTML5 starting to show up in real browsers and now Google saying things like the following [my emphasis], it’s a damn fine time to be coding on the front end: Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and […]