November 21st, 2008
After writing my first article on the subject, Ultimate Site Logo, I’ve come up with two significant enhancements.. With the original solution, there were two major flaws. The first one was a semantic one and the other one a more obvious and technical one. This time around I think I’ve got all the details right. [...]
November 19th, 2008
I’ve been using the beta web service Spotify for a couple of months now. And I must say that I’m really impressed. I would almost go as far as to say it’s the best piece of software I have ever used.
November 16th, 2008
A few month ago I posted about a demo where I used content marked up with Microformats to populate a Google map using Javascript. Well, now I’ve improved that demo somewhat.
November 14th, 2008
On World Usability Day on 13 of November we gathered a bunch of people to put focus on usability. The event which we called A nice cup of coffee on Usability Day, was held at my former employer, Visma Spcs office in Växjö. Chris Jangelöv was host for the event. Here’s some pictures taken by [...]
November 10th, 2008
This Thursday (November 13) is World Usability Day. It’s an event that takes place at different locations around the globe each year to put the spotlight on usability in our daily lives. Here in Växjö, Sweden we’re going to celebrate this with a get together where I’m going to talk a little about usability in [...]
November 6th, 2008
In part 1 I showed how to use and optimize performance on polylines in Google Maps using Javascript. In this article I will show you how to get even better performance by encoding the polylines on the server.
November 5th, 2008
Conchango is developing a shopping system for the British grocery store Tesco. It’s supposed to help customers when buying/ordering food and has a graphically rich interface. I’m for one hate shopping for groceries. If I could have a system like this that remembers what groceries I normally buy and suggests a shopping list according to [...]
November 2nd, 2008
Normally when you initialize a new Google map you set the coordinates for the center of the map and manually specifies the initial zoom level. Sometimes, however, there’s a need to dynamically calculate the center point and zoom level for certain content to fit into the viewport.