By Mike Barborak on February 26, 2010
“Conform. Or you’re an idiot.”
This is the message I hear more and more from HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript (“HTML5+” for short) standardistas. Their claim is that the capabilities of their technology triumvirate have removed the need for any other web technologies. Their favorite target for death is of course Flash which they describe as [...]
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By Mike Barborak on February 24, 2010
When writing an application in which user-submitted data can find its way without review into the public view, it’s awfully nice to be able to automatically staunch the flow of profanities at least a little bit. We needed such a thing for a recent social media widget we built but oddly couldn’t find anything in [...]
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By Mike Barborak on February 14, 2010
At BASIK we’ve built social media widgets and integrations several times. And as with any task that involves multiple, changing technologies, there have been headaches every time. So in the interest of helping out others faced with similar tasks, this article will describe our recent project with Attention for Barbie and The White House Project.
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