Category: Web development

• 24 January 2007

  In Sydney on the 26th January? Get on Google Maps!

  If you are in Sydney, Australia, on the 26th January 2007 get yourself down to the Harbour. Google, as part of the Australia Day celebrations, are planning to take areal photographs of the city (from their Google branded plane) for Google Maps. They have permission to fly low and take high resolution photographs so they…
• 23 January 2007

  Visualisation Frameworks

  I recently stumbled across a couple of visulisation frameworks that are pretty cool: Processing “Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production.” Processing uses a custom Java like,…
• 5 January 2007

  AJAX what is it? (it’s not DHTML)

  Despite the fact that AJAX is at the centre of the current Web 2.0 movement it is still a greatly misunderstood technology. So what is it? Ajax, is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML – its not a technology in it own right rather a set of established technologies, a development technique if you will,…