This JavaScript Number object method will return a numerical and word based string from an epoch time number. For example, the method will turn the number “98635″ into the string “1 days, 3 hours, 23 minutes, 55 seconds”.

This post is about recent security issues with many Media Temple Grider Server (gs) hosting accounts and WordPress.

Schalk Neeling at Open Voice was kind enough to have me for an interview on jParse. We discussed what sets jParse apart from other XML parsing methods and jQuery plugins, how to use it, planned feature additions and more. Read the interview here.

Today I launched the site of a jQuery plugin that I’ve been working on called jParse. The plugin allows you to easily parse XML that has been fetched with an Ajax request. The plugin works off of jQuery’s ajax method, so all of the same options are available. In terms of parsing, the plugin gives you a few options: Custom Output, Limit, Count of Items and the ability to run functions before and after jParse is finished.

A workflow model for front-end web development which seeks to lower development time and frustration in testing in old browsers.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a photo wall of your Flickr photos. The script will use jQuery to send several Ajax requests for JSON data and then ultimately insert all of the images and the information associated with them into the document. The photo wall will be complete with a rollover on each image which will show and link to the information that is available for the image.

Flickr is a very well developed web application that allows you to store and share your photos. The site has an easy to use API that will allow you to use access almost all of the data on Flickr. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how the basics of using the API, requesting data in JSON format, experimenting with an optional argument, and what to do with the data you receive from a request.

Something isn’t right. Apple released Safari 4 beta today and claims “Safari is the first – and only – web browser to pass Acid 3.”
There is only one problem with this, Opera 10 Alpha has passed Acid 3 since at least December 4th, 2008. How can Apple make this claim?

I was developing a website the other day that uses several tiled background images defined in its global style sheet and started wondering how that was affecting the visitors RAM. I started out using very small, 5 x 5 pixel semi-transparent .png images as my tile, but started to wonder if it takes more RAM [...]