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Google Chrome Developer Builds Available

If you've been holding your breath waiting for Google to release Chrome for Mac (or Linux), you can take a breath. It has been a long time coming, but Google finally announced today that they are releasing "developer" builds for Mac and Linux. Because of its startup speed (dramatically better than ...

Ext Releases Ext Core

If the upcoming 3.0 release of the full ExtJS library wasn't enough to get you excited, yesterday's announcement of the release of a new lightweight core library, Ext Core, should be enough to get your pulse up. Ext Core looks to fill the void that exists between a full Ext ...

Managing My Social Networks

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="Photo by Matt Rife."][/caption] I like the idea of social networking (heck, I'm building a spatially-enabled social networking app), but am still struggling with the idea of managing multiple social networks at the same time. I mean who uses only Facebook? And the complexity grows even more ...

Cappuccino Atlas

I just read on Ajaxian that the Cappuccino team announced Atlas, a new "visual layout editor and development environment", today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami. I heard Atlas mentioned (not by name) by a member of the Cappuccino team, Ross Boucher while attending a Cappuccino bootcamp ...

Foxmarks Now for Internet Explorer and Safari

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="Photo by memestate."][/caption] I just read on Lifehacker that Foxmarks has released versions of its bookmark synchronization utility for Internet Explorer and Safari (for Mac, not yet Windows). This is exciting news, as now I can truly consider using Safari while working on my Mac. On top ...

Planning for Internet Explorer 8

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Photo by Eyeliam."][/caption] Look out web developers, a new version of Internet Explorer is about to be released into the wild. Fun fun. There's no use complaining. You know you're going to have to support it, so, the only thing left to do is work hard to ...

Great JavaScript Debugging Article

When I first started digging deep into writing complex applications with JavaScript, one of the biggest hurdles that I had to overcome was figuring out how to debug my code. At the time, the tools available were (to say the least) lacking. Since then, the tools have improved dramatically. ...

Attending Web Directions North

I'll be at the Web Directions North conference here in Denver today through Thursday of this week. If you haven't heard about the conference yet, take a look at the schedule at the conference site. There are some great workshops and sessions, with some presenters that I highly recommend ...

ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth Bug: Cannot Dynamically Draw Polyline or Polygon in Internet Explorer 7

UPDATE: This was a bug. I reported it to ESRI, and they have fixed it in the latest release (1.3) of Virtual Earth JavaScript extension. Funny, I'm not sure if anyone is even using the extension, as there was a major lack of response about this issue in the ESRI ...

Internet Explorer JavaScript Links

Using links to call JavaScript functions can be a bit trickier than you might think. The issues that I’ve run into are generally Internet Explorer-specific (aren’t they all?). While troubleshooting these issues, I’ve discovered a syntax that seems to solve all of the problems:Click Here Hopefully ...