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posted on Aug 12th, 2010  under:  , , , 1

A few weeks ago, I wrote a jQuery slideshow app for a personal project. The slideshow ended up being more useful than I originally expected and I realized that it could be re-used in a many different applications with a little more work. Several days later, A List Apart launched “10K Apart: A contest to inspire the web in under 10k.” When I first read about the contest my slideshow app came to mind so I decided to look into ways to make it work for the concept. (more…)

posted on May 16th, 2010  under:  , , , , , 50

Starting with Safari 4, iPhone/iPad OS3, Chrome 5, and Opera 10.5 (Desktop), HTML5 Local Databases are now supported. I’ve been reading about local databases for quite some time and decided to do a write up with some basic examples on how to get started. (more…)