When I start learning a programming language, which is not very often, it always helps me to play around with stuff the minute I learned it. Sometimes reading and playing happens at the same time. Understanding the basic concepts is one part but the other one is using them. When I learned Perl I started […]

After introducing some of books, I will now share my online resources. There are a lot of toolkits, frameworks or libraries out there, free to use, with powerful features or a lot less typing for you as benefit. The one that all these toolkits rely on is called »prototype«. It is an AJAX Framework which […]

Instead of writing one article of enormous length I decided to break it into pieces. It is all about Javascript which is catching my attention for quite a while now. In fact it is the number one reason for the lack of posts in my blog for the last couple of weeks. While I was […]

I’m using Textmate on a daily basis for editing XHTML because of its rich and intelligent auto-completion features. Since I started using it I wrote twice as much code (at least) with a lot less actual typing. For those who wonder »how?« there is a screen cast online showing some of the many features of […]

Now its 2006, Google Maps and Google Mail are interesting like cold coffee but the hype these projects started is still going on. Everyday there are new »Web 2.0« apps popping up. None of them is doing something really new, right now they are busy combining all of the early »Web 2.0« apps like flickr, […]