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Tag Archives: Misc Web Design
How does Google Maps API present location on whatscloseto.me
I get a few questions here and there about the location detection on whatscloseto.me. Sometimes it seems really near – other times it seems way off. First off, check out this section of the Google Maps AJAX API. That’s how … Continue reading
How I test email recipients when I develop
When developing an application, there are usually various different environments that you run the code in. First is the development environment. Next, you have the QA or test environment, staging, and then live or production. It stands to reason that … Continue reading
Using Google Charts to make QR Codes
Google Charts is my hero yet again. This time, I happened to notice that they have a chart in their API for QR Codes. Considering I was just searching google for a PHP class to do this, I was pretty … Continue reading
Use your own short domain while waiting for BitLy Pro
If you’ve checked out BitLy Pro, you’re probably pretty excited like I am. I saw it and immediately registered saray.me for a short URL. When I went to sign up, I found it was still in a queue system where … Continue reading
IE6 warning on site
So I got permission at the beginning of March to add an Internet Explorer 6 deprecation message to one of the sites I’m working on. My goals are simple: Do not pump the message out to search engines or anyone … Continue reading
Javascript and CSS Compression and Cache
I’ve been researching caching and compression techniques for my external resources for some time. My first design of JEMDiary was very greedy with HTTP connections. Couple that with having a less-than-perfect host (Dreamhost bleh…), users could feel the burn. I … Continue reading
hCard – should I care?
So lately, I’ve been looking into the semantic tools available on the web. I want to make sure that my online identity is easily searchable and undeniably accurate. Using semantic tools such as XFN, FOAF and hCard may help me. … Continue reading
Friend of a Friend: FOAF
So I added my own FOAF link on my home page. The RDF file is here: http://assets.aaronsaray.com/assets/foaf.rdf For those who aren’t familiar, Friend of a Friend is a protocol defined to help machines read relationships between entities (persons) on the … Continue reading
Protect Your Image from Download
I came across a great idea dealing with protecting image downloads from the site. Now, this is not fool-proof. There are lots of other ways to download the image, but this may stop the casual downloader. Nope, its not disabling … Continue reading
Auto Failover for CDN based Javascript
Using my javascript error reporter code helps me get a better understanding of what my clients are experiencing when visiting my website. One thing I did notice was the failures from time to time of Google’s CDN based Jquery. To … Continue reading