Fifty People One Question

London, UK

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Brooklyn, US

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Screencast: Fetching tweets with jQuery and the Twitter JSON API

A very brief (5min) screencast based on the code used in my previous post “Fetching tweets with jQuery and the Twitter JSON API“. This screencast was made with screenr, so I was limited to 5min in length and no editing of the video…

‘No IE’ WordPress plugin released

Today my first WordPress plugin was published at the official WordPress plugin site and it is now available for download. This plugin simply replaces your site’s contents with a message asking visitors to use a better browser if they use Internet Explorer 7 or earlier.

Every web designer knows how annoying it is to deal with internet explorer issues, and how the use of Microsoft’s browsers hinders innovation. But not just that, offering support for IE6 and IE7 normally means a lot of unnecessary extra work and holding back from modern design techniques and technologies (CSS3, png transparency, round corners, HTML5, …).

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Programming language popularity

As a PHP enthusiast I was very pleased a couple of weeks ago when I read that PHP is already in the top 3 in programming language popularity only after Java and C. This popularity index is based on the number of professional programmers, training courses and vendors.


Programming language popularity Sept 2009

Source: TIOBE Software – http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html