After my last excursions in AJAX and DHTML I feel slightly more confident about hacking together the last bits of EventQueue to make it full functional.

However, before I release it I really want to make it so that it can have multiple backends (mod_perl 1 & 2, cgi, static) which shouldn't be too hard but means that it's become suspiciously ( Read more... )

Some games journo friends of mine needed a simple web based XML document publishing app to interface with Yahoo!'s syndication system. So I wrote one for them in return for an Xbox 360 and called it Woohoo.

I'm actually quite chuffed by it - it's quite slick (it uses judicious DHTML of which more later) and looks nice (by ripping off Mr Batistoni ( Read more... )

What's actually been the biggest problem is the design and usability - because I suck at that and I suck at DHTML and Javascript and CSS and AJAX and for all the pissing and moaning you get about Open Source stuff looking horrible there's no coherent resource for getting usability and designery type people to work on your open source stuff.

To be ( Read more... )