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Simple JavaScript Debugging with Blackbird

Friday, November 21st, 2008

If you, like me, tend to use logging with Firebug or even alert() quite often when developing JavaScript, you might be interested in Blackbird by G. Scott Olson. Blackbird is a simple utility that does nothing apart from displaying log messages and very basic JavaScript performance testing.

Logging JavaScript with Blackbird

Unlike utilities like Firebug or Venkman, Blackbird isn't a browser add-on but just some JS and CSS that you can add to your projects, therefore it can be used in any browser. The tool even works in IE6, what makes it pretty useful for cross-browser debugging.

You can see the tool in action at the project website, it's also a demo by itself. Nice layout idea btw, incuding the tool itself in the design as title artwork.

If you need more than just logging: Firebug lite simulates some features of Firebug and works the same way Blackbird does.

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My Thoughts on <head> Conference 2008

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Last weekend, a special event took place: The first edition of <head> Conference. In case you haven't heard of it yet - <head> 2008 was a web conference that took place on the web, or as the organizers kept pointing out, everywhere.

attending head conference online

Paul Boeg "live" at <head> Conference

There were some local venues, so called "hubs", were attendees could gather to follow the talks. Apart from that, people joined the conference online - both attendees and speakers: Instead of making you come to the web conference, let's make the web conference come to you.

The three-day conference covered a broad range of topics, such as community building, information graphics, etc. but the focus was clearly on web design and (frontend) development. (more...)

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Chart-o-matic: Semantic Charting

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Tonight, I am happy to announce the soon-to-come release of a project I've spend a fair amount of time working on:

Chart-o-matic is a easy-to-use solution for embedding simple charts in web documents. Initially developed as a part of my final year project at university, it will soon be released to the public under BSD-Licence.

What makes Chart-o-matic significantly different from all the other client-side charting libraries is its approach to the visualized information: It takes statistical data that was stored in html tables and turns it into a bar-, line-, or pie-charts. In a way, it does for charts what sIFR does for typography: It preserves the semantics of textual information while still providing a rich graphic experience to the users of modern browsers.

Although it's not completely finished yet, I've put some more Information and a small demonstration of the system together. Have a look at it here: Chart-o-matic project website »

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