Archive for January, 2006

Blummy: Major Update

January 23rd, 2006 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 8 Comments »

I'm proud to announce a major update of Blummy. Blummy now includes blummyWiki, a small notebook-wiki that can be displayed within the current page. So you could store favorite URLs or commonly used information there which will be available on any page just like Blummy. And of course it's crossbrowser and crosscomputer. In my opinion [...]

Announcing Wizlite: Collaborative Page Highlighting

January 16th, 2006 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 4 Comments »

So I'm not the first to write about my project? Well. Nice ;) Wizlite takes the good old highlighting marker from paper to web. People get different colors and mark important sections on any homepage. Users can create groups and wizlite away on a certain topic (either private or public). You'd have to use it [...]

Speed up your page, but how?

January 3rd, 2006 by Alexander Kirk | Comments 2 Comments »

Today I ran accross the blog entry by Marcelo Calbucci, called "Web Developers: Speed up your pages!". It's a typical example of good idea, bad execution. Most of the points he mentions are really bad practice. He suggests reducing traffic (and therefore loading time) by removing whitespace from the source code, to write all code [...]