Web design/development tutorials, how-tos and general rant about mashups, dom Scripting and all the things we call web2.0. Email me at heavyweightgeek at gmail.com
The HeavyWeightGeek
It's 2008 and I forgot I'm a ruddy blogger. It's a new year and I have a new text editor. So I'm going to start writing blog posts again. This year I'm mostly going to focus on JavaScript. I've spent a lot of time and effort in the last 12 months getting myself up to a good level now it's time to start sharing.
January 14th, 2008 by Gavin Brogan
Trying to organise a few geeks for beers after work on Friday. So if you are in Edinburgh on Friday the 30th Nov 07 around 5.30ish like beer and like the web, Pop along to Le Monde (upstairs) on George Street for a couple of light refreshments.
November 27th, 2007 by Gavin Brogan
Finally wrote a Google gadget to add and play with JSMin by Douglas Crockford to my iGoogle homepage. If you've not seen JSMin before, it strips out all the undesired stuff from your production JS and makes it a bit faster at downloading. Anyway, it works now and your free to use it too. Read it now »
September 3rd, 2007 by Gavin Brogan
People are looking at my tutorial to add Flickr images to web pages with JavaScript. Of coarse this is a doddle, but I thought I could maybe make it even easier by writing a class.
Read it now »
August 8th, 2007 by Gavin Brogan
Last week my attention was drawn to yet another TLA (actually FourLA). This one (POSH) is just as useless as AJAX however, just like AJAX the stupid acronym does serve a purpose. Read it now »
May 14th, 2007 by Gavin Brogan