Woah, today I decided to spend the Sunday with some coding fun, and I ended up using the whole day, breakfast to dinner, and even after. It turns out that none of the alternatives available on Firefox to create thumbnail previews, or speed dials, is satisfying enough for my tastes. On the contrary, the new TopSites feature in Safari 4 is quite appealing. So I decided to recreate it.

I’ve found a small accessibility bug in the website of a popular (most popular?) italian credit card provider (Cartasi.it). How long does it take them to recognize the problem? Will they answer at all? Will they just ignore bugs submitted by common users? Or will they react quickly and address the issue? UPDATE: They answer (sort of).

I have published a new article on the programming portal DevX.com , whose title reads Google Visualization API: Deliver Graphical Data Analysis in Your Web Apps. The Google Visualization API offers a unified way for developers to deliver visual analysis and provides a rich set of graphic and charting components to handle the majority of visualization scenarios. The Google Visualization API is a data interchange specification and a set of libraries that developers can use to represent structured data as graphic visualizations and interactive charts inside their web applications.

I have published a new article on the programming portal DevX.com , whose title reads JavaScript and jQuery: Web Apps as Highly Interactive as Desktop Apps. The article demonstrates how to leverage the power that comes from JavaScript, jQuery and modern browsers to deliver a new class of web applications, that behave and look like desktop applications, fueled by drag-and-drop, mouse selection, panning, zooming, and more.

I have published a new article on the programming portal DevX.com , related to Javascript. Here is the synopsis for the article: “Characterized by some dubious design decisions, ambiguous syntax rules, and a troubled history, JavaScript could have been dismissed as a second-class scripting language useful only for animating web pages. However, JavaScript has matured into one of the most ubiquitous and pervasive programming languages today, currently powering complex and highly interactive web applications. With JavaScript so widely distributed and so closely tied to the user experience, JavaScript skills are mandatory if you develop web applications nowadays”.

Rhizosphere is amongst us! Rhizosphere is my most recent project and is an innovative approach to help you navigate and filter through your data. Lightweight, web-based, intuitive, its purpose is to provide a simple but effective way to flow through your data, isolate them, filter them and help you locate that information that you know it’s there, but it’s lost amidst the noise.