The curly quotes, or “smart quotes” generated by Microsoft Word and other applications can be a real headache to developers. If you’ve built an administration area for your content publishers, and the publishers frequently compose their posts in Word and then copy+paste into your form to publish to the web, you may run into the situation where the curly quotes are replaced by...
Facebook Connect – a More Authentic Web, Or Loss of Privacy?
Facebook recently launched their new Facebook Connect API, which extends some impressive Facebook functionality into websites who opt to use the Facebook Connect system. Websites that implement Facebook Connect will be able to offer their users an easy way of connecting to their Facebook friends from Facebook Connected website, and actions the user takes on the third-party website can be...
Put a Fun, Techy Spin on the Boring Office Card
You know the drill – someone in the office is having a birthday/wedding/baby/retirement/whatever. Someone is designated to go out and buy a card, and then everyone in the office has to sneak around trying to sign it while the intended recipient has their back turned. Sometimes the option to contribute money is involved, for example for a baby shower or wedding card, where office mates pitch...