Category Archives: Development

3 DRY Techniques for Maintainable Ajax

Posted on October 9, 2011 by James

Using ajax on the web is old technology. Writing a good javascript to achieve this is not difficult, but it is rarely covered in introduction to ajax tutorials. The result is a mixing of html “templates” inside your javascript code. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Xcode 4 Price

Posted on March 14, 2011 by James

With the release of Xcode 4 came a completely unknown feature, even for developers like myself: a price tag. This is the first time that Xcode has ever had a price. Since the release of OS X, Xcode (and its … Continue reading →

Posted in Cocoa, Development, Mac OS X, Objective-C | 3 Comments

How to Create Realistic Buttons with CSS3

Posted on March 9, 2011 by James

In a modern web application we don’t really use buttons (ala the input tag) so much. More often than not, we use some kind of div or link that when combined with some javascript behaves as a button. I’m not … Continue reading →

Posted in CSS3, Development, Hacking, Web | 2 Comments

8 Things I Learned About Software Development (Without writing code)

Posted on January 12, 2011 by James

In 2009 I set out to make a major elease of my Japanese-English dictionary Jisho 4.0. Jisho 4.0 was to be a complete overhaul of the existing codebase and a 100% new interface. After a scrapped interface and a few … Continue reading →

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Process Paypal IPN Requests Through WordPress

Posted on August 16, 2009 by James

Introduction Paypal is perhaps the easiest way to send/receive money online and WordPress is perhaps the most popular blogging platform out there. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way we could integrate them together? There are currently a … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Paypal, PHP, Wordpress | 4 Comments