Welcome to the HWG blog

A collection of tutorials, blogs, and useful links to digital video (DV) resources for those seeking some guidance and/or tips to get them started or polish their skills as an independent film maker or just want to produce another cat video to post on youtube. Read it now »

A tutorial for those wanting to create mushups but are new/unfamiliar with JSON, this short tutorial will explain what it is, where it's used and most importantly how to use it within a page. It should also act as a nice API, Web 2.0 and mashup primer. Read it now »

Another pain with AJAX (or flash) is the ability to track calls from XHR objects. This inevitability stops webmasters from effectively find bottle necks and stumbling points for users. It's this problem that I was faced with this morning.

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Thanks to it's extensability, developing in Firefox is a pleasure. Extensions as Chris Pederick's excellent Web Developer Toolbar make life so much the sweeter. With a little javascript know-how it is possible to add some of these features into IE. Hopefully this tutorial will start you on your way to IE bliss stem the MS rage. Read it now »

Here are my five top Ajax tips, including "How to escape your domain without writing a proxy" and how to "use innerHTML, but use it the geek way", which I've been working on for the past while. I've tried to use proper Dom Scripting and web standards where I can but sometimes I may have strayed. Read it now »