Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Chris
I like JavaScript, and I like jQuery, and I am always interested in improving my skills with those tools. So when I found out that jQuery’s latest conference was going to be held in Boston, less than an hour’s drive from where I live, and that a good friend of mine was going to be [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Chris
Wow, it’s been two weeks since the last BlogShouts update, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on the site. Not by a long shot! We’ve pushed out a bunch of new fixes and features, including at least one thing that wasn’t even on the list of pending features. To quote Captain Willard, from Apocalypse [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Chris
We’ve been rolling out features, fixes and improvements to BlogShouts right and left for the past ten days, so I thought I’d do another update on what’s happening with the site. I love the tech we’re using — it’s really made it a breeze to quickly change the site. Sometimes we roll out two, three, [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2011 by Chris
Welcome to what I hope is a recurring column here on the Dart Blog, where we talk about the features, fixes and enhancements we’ve recently added to BlogShouts, and take a look at what we think is coming up in the next week or so. As mentioned in the last entry, we’ve launched Blog Shouts [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Chris
As we wrap up the final few bugs fixes and feature additions that we want to have ready before BlogShouts goes live this month, I ran into a minor bit of CSS/JavaScript wackiness that was annoying me. I wanted alternating “Shout Cards” to have different margin widths, but I didn’t want Gabe to have to [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Chris
Where does the time go? You must understand, dear readers (all six of you) that BlogShouts is still at this time a work of love for Gabe and I. Dart Publishing, on the other hand, has become an actual commercial entity with actual clients, who expect actual web work to actually be delivered. This, in [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Chris
When you spend the better part of fifteen years working on the web, you encounter a lot of technologies. In 1997, it was HTML 3 and PERL 5. Lately it’s been ASP.Net web forms and a lot of JavaScript (and that’s one hell of an improvement). One of the goals Gabe and I have for [...]