JW's blog

Apologies and a status update

JW — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:46:45 +0000

From February 18th until February 26th 2008, this blog was down. The next day, my host, "Clawz.com":http://www.clawz.com, "told me":http://forums.clawz.com/index.php?topic=2304.0 that they plan to stop offering the free (ad-supported) hosting which I've been enjoying for some years now. I have 30 days to move out.

Word Content: Bloggers not publishing original content anymore?

JW — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:51:13 +0000

Just recently, I came across "this website":http://www.wordcontent.com/. It's called Word Content, and its main purpose is to give you, for a fee, unique articles to publish on your website. When I saw it, I was surprised by the concept: if blogging is all about people expressing their personal opinion and publishing it for the whole world to read, why would you want to buy articles for your blog? So I searched for an explanation in this post.

JavaScript: Finding primes

JW — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:14:49 +0000

In the spirit of "one of my previous posts":http://jw.x10hosting.com/blog/2007/08/22/javascript-finding-the-least-common-multiple/, I'm releasing a new JavaScript library extracted out of code I wrote for "Project Euler":http://projecteuler.net/. This time, it's a library to find primes and to check numbers for their primality.

Website hacked

JW — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:05:48 +0000

Yesterday, this site was unreachable for a few hours, and instead redirected to some random blog on Blogspot. Apparently, someone was able to hack this website, and replaced the index.php with a modified one. I suspect the hacker used an exploit in WordPress, since I was still running WordPress 2.0.2, and didn't bother to upgrade. Lesson learned.

JavaScript: finding the least common multiple

JW — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:51:25 +0000

Lately, I've been testing my JavaScript knowledge by solving programming problems at "Project Euler":http://projecteuler.net/. While solving the first practices, it occurred to that some of them can prove useful in real-world applications. So, I decided to extract the useful code from these exercises and release them. In this first post, I release an, admittedly quite elementary, script to find the least common multiple of a list of numbers.

On keybindings: marrying keyboard and mouse-based navigation

JW — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:56:00 +0000

"Everything in the UI(User Interface) should be accessible with the keyboard." A simple rule, and yet do so many applications break it. Keybindings may be hard to learn, but once you know them they increase your productivity enormously. So why don't more applications include an easy way to navigate through UI(User Interface) using the keyboard?

Thoof: how is it different?

JW — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:32:51 +0000

"Thoof":http://www.thoof.com is a personalized news service, like there exist thousands. But, according to "Techcrunch":http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/15/revver-founder-launches-thoof-personalized-news-service/, Ian Clarke, the founder of Thoof, said "the sites that came before Thoof simply didn't have a good solution, and users were left wanting." I checked out Thoof and it is, in my opinion, going to leave users even more wanting.

How to add good-looking and functional navigation to your application

JW — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:37:01 +0000

In this post, we're going to add a navigation bar to our application that is both beautiful, semantically correct, and easy to implement. I'm going for the easiest solution to solve the problem, gracefully degrading into a simpler but still functional navigation bar depending on the capabilities of the user's browser.

Project Wonderful is wonderful!

JW — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:34:30 +0000

Recently, I "added advertisements to this blog":http://jw.x10hosting.com/blog/2007/04/18/advertisements-on-my-blog/, provided through "Project Wonderful":http://www.projectwonderful.com/. This has been a very good experience so far, enough people seem to be interested in bidding on the ad space here for me to gain some small revenue, and using this money to buy ads for Chameleon also hasn't been any problem.

Advertisements on my blog

JW — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:40:59 +0000

In one of the next few days, I will be adding advertisements to my blog, served by "Project Wonderful":http://www.projectwonderful.com/. The idea is to make a small revenue out of these, and use the money earned on my blog to promote "Chameleon":http://chameleon.wikidot.com/ on other websites.