Page Peeling in jQuery

Most of the time simpler is better, and this still applies to web development. I stumbled across a great page corner peeling effect, and it is blindingly simple. If you are after a page peeling effect and use jQuery, I highly advise checking it out at Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS. If you're after a nice page peeling effect without jQuery, there's loads of guides out there, but why not save the hassle and download jQuery!

The Cubicle King

I saw this Dilbert comic strip the other day and made me laugh and think back to the post I left at the beginning of the month.

Google Ethics

"Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto of Google. Many people think this is a joke, especially after the Google Street View Data Collection scandal. What Google had done, although unethical, wasn't that bad in the scale of things. If anything it just served to help raised awareness of what had already been happening for years. During my BSc (Hons) degree at Plymouth University nearly 10 years ago, we covered war driving and people even undertook it as part of their project. People were driving around connecting to unsecured (and secured) wireless networks long before Google did it.

Going back to the slogan, when applied to online information retrieval Google have done extremely well to uphold their initial values.

• No pay for inclusion (in index)
• No pay for placement (in ranking)
• Clearly demarked results and ads
• 20% engineer time doing random stuff
• Users come first

So give Google a break, after all they probably already have all your personal details (thanks Facebook) and they're not going to disappear anytime soon!

jQuery Modal Box Issues

I had major issues with ThickBox 3.1 today. It's supposed to be a modal toolkit for jQuery but the latest version has too many bugs. With a fresh install, it refused to work in Firefox, and after a few bug fixes I found that it also didn't work with IE8! I did find many fixes for these through Google, but whats the point of needing to fix something 'out the box' when you can send it back and get something else? Oh well, I've ended up going with the jQuery lightBox Plugin instead.

My Desk

I know it looks a bit cluttered, but I love my setup at work. Even if it is running on Windows! I've found a few good ports of my favourite OS X apps like E-TextEditor (TextMate for Windows). Also, just like all good desks I have a coffee percolator just to the left (out of shot) for that quick caffeine boost!