Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Ah the fun world of 404 pages

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

If you could add some sort of interesting-ness to a common problem, does that make it an oportunity? Absolutely! When someone accidentally hits a page that doesn’t exist on your site, the standard 404 page doesn’t do much, if if you entice the poor misguided traveler, they might stick around and see what you have to offer.

Enter the fun world of custom 404 pages, here is mine. I have included the source code at the bottom of this post including the original flash file I used to create this. Feel free to use it, change it, distribute it as you see fit.


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Mozilla Labs’ Bespin (Web Editor)

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Mozilla labs has been working on some very interesting stuff lately. Here is another one that looks very promising; Bespin, a web-based text editor and developer tools. The idea is simple but the potential is huge. If you can maintain your projects server based and collaborate with others without the need of specialized synchronizing software, well, that would be sweet.

Imagine a web based text editor that is extensible and customizeable as firefox it self. TextMate + Vim + SVN all in one package. I for one am excited about this little gem.


Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

I played around with it, and while it still lacks a lot of the finer points that might make this an extremely useful tool, it is impressive none the less. I can’t wait to learn more about it.