Web - Morten Nielsen

View source on the IPad

The IPad is a nice tool for surfing the web from your sofa. However if your like me and sometimes want to check out how certain things are done it’s missing a vital feature. It’s missing a view source functionallity. So I Googled for it and found the

UI

Some companies have the same look and feel

Sometimes its hard to spot the difference

AppEngine

Grails vs. Python on Google AppEngine

A few weeks ago I got fed up with the bad performance I was getting on Google AppEngine for my Grails project. I was also having trouble figuring out how to combine references for Entities to build more complex structures. As a result I finally lost it and started experimenting

Web

Screens taking off

I just visited a local library. I took the time to pop in around lunch since they have reopened the library just recently (2 years ago?), with some new concepts in place. What I noticed is that they have a lot of work stations placed around the library. All carrying

Ajax

Rethinking design desicions

I read a blog post at Three Rivers Institute that lead me to the following presentation. The presentation is about startups and search engine optimization. How to drive visitors to your website. Dharmesh discusses how to adapt your webpage to generate visitors, also promoting his hubspot seo grader. Now this

Google

Invitation model marketing

The Google Wave beta program rolled out a bunch of Beta invitations lately. I discussed this with a friend, the marketing value of an invitation model for software. GMail started as an invitation, most people I know started using GMail as they were invited by others. I my self started

Architecture

JQuery: keeping your site-state in the addressbar

More and more sites are doing it. Keeping their state in the address bar of the browser, enabling AJAX driven dynamic html pages to use the back and forward buttons between javascript driven views. The most common website that uses this functionality, that I know of, is GMail. If you

Ajax

IETester

I found a new tool for testing web-applications in IE today. It’s called IETester, and it allows me to test IE versions 5.5 to 8 in the same application. Which is great, since my Vista machine only runs 8 normally. I use it to verify my Grails application