I thought it might be useful to write a catchup article for anyone interested in learning more about the Canvas element. Some in the web development community see it as one of the biggest changes we’ve seen in the web for quite some time. Why? The canvas element gives us access reading and... 

  Over the past 2 weeks I’ve done a lot of research into Apple’s CoverFlow effect and how other developer’s have implemented it in languages and frameworks such as AS3, ProtoType MooTools. Without a doubt, the Flash versions of the effect have been the closest thing I’ve... 

Today I’ve been working on a compact slideshow component for jQuery – I can’t wait to get back to working on our CoverFlow component, but here’s a little extra you might find useful. I figured that as many of my fellow developers have sites with a fairly standard size sidebar,... 

 The Twitter API luckily supports exporting data in a number of formats including JSON, XML and as ATOM feeds. Anyone who frequently uses Twitter for following the latest news, trends and your friends may be aware that each user’s account supports out-of-the-box RSS (via the icon on your profile... 

When I first attempting to code up a pure PHP Facebook app, one of the first problem’s I encountered was I wanted to create a friend selector using as little FBML or FBJS code as possible. This proved slightly difficult as any external PHP file I would create to query Facebook using FQL via Ajax...