Right at the core of many web applications lies the age old problem of usability testing. How can you accurately watch what users are doing, and when they are doing it? Some solutions exist already, but alas they are charging for the priviledge. Sooo.. I decided to cook up something myself, and shar...

If any of you have tried developing Mozilla Firefox plugins before - you'll know that whilst they are loosely based around technologies such as HTML, there is a certain amount of navigation away from the technologies towards XML and RDF. You also have to worry about packaging your plugin in XPI form...

Us .NET developers get it tough. There is enough MS bashing to bury us three times over, and we've learned to take it on the chin. You know the type - those dev's and designers who continually boast of their open source credentials, and full stack frameworks. Well, its time to dig deep, and give ...

There comes a day in every developers life where he has to find a way of taking a direct screengrab of a URL. Whether that be for a custom search engine, or just to make things pretty. So how do you best go about doing that? Well. There are two options. One you can generate the images yourself, save...

Was having a play about last night with Google co-op, and I've went to the trouble of collecting some JQuery plugin sites. So if you are looking for an accordion effect, or Coda popup bubbles, or apple menus or sortable table it's a one stop shop. There are over 1048 sites being indexed for plugins ...

Many a web application can be enhanced with a decent graph to show data. Unfortunately out of the programming languages / frameworks that we have available to us, none seem to be very forthcoming with decent graph components, and it is left up to third party solutions to provide the necessary. From ...

I've been thinking recently about reintroducing sound events into some of our web applications. The web has moved on from midi files as background music, and sounds on ever button with a web page. We've become more grown up when it comes to multimedia. But perhaps now is the time for adding compl...

To the ordinary man on the street we are geeks. To me, anyone that codes has the power to create something brilliant. I code because it empowers me. We can shape online worlds, we can create entire brands from an idea. We are the masters of the digital universe. Like puppeteers we pull the s...

The web has increasingly become focused / obsessed with social media marketing, and as a direct result uk e-commerce retailers have started to look at the obvious benefits in using this medium online to increase visitor traffic and ultimately sales. Plenty of interesting sites have popped up which ...

I've been working hard on getting promotion, coverage and PR on our web based applications lately, and have stumbled upon some brilliant script directories and websites which provide free links if you offer products or scripts for sale, so for convience here's the list as it stands. I'll be keeping ...