Be Careful Buying Gift Cards this Season

Here's a heads up if you plan on giving gift cards around the holidays. You need to be careful that the cards will be
honored after the holidays.

Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though …

Amazon.com Announces Early Black Friday Deals

Amazon.com Widgets

Spry: Empty option in dataset-controlled select

With Adobe Spry, you can dynamically populate a select box (aka. dropdown) with a dataset very easily:

var ds = new Spry.Data.JSONDataSet("/some/jsonobject.js");

If you are familiar with Spry, than the above makes complete sense. I …

100 Awesome AIR Apps for Productivity

Adobe AIR not only makes developers more productive by allowing them to write a single code-base for multiple distribution platforms, but it also produces excellent productivity apps for the average computer user. Here is a lit of 100 Awesome AIR apps for …

Amazon Ends Frustrating Packaging Woes

Everyone is familiar with the clear stiff plastic clamshell packaging that beautifully wraps that new computer mouse, kitchen knife, toy car.  Parents know all too well what awaits them in order to free their child's toy from its casing. They are confronted …

My Emoticon Pumpkin :)

Happy Halloween everybody. In the spirit of the season and working in the tech industry, I felt it more than appropriate to show my love with an emoticon pumpkin:

Enjoy!

My Emoticon Pumpkin :)

Happy Halloween everybody. In the spirit of the season and working in the tech industry, I felt it more than appropriate to show my love with an emoticon pumpkin:

Enjoy!

Incandescent Replacements: GE vs. Sylvania

It is a common fact that fluorescent light bulbs conserve a considerable amount of energy in comparison to incandescent light bulbs. Until a few years ago, these types of bulbs were limited to the long tubes you traditionally see in commercial and industrial …

Google Chrome Browser: A High-Level Overview

Google announced today its latest project, Google Chrome, a competitor in the browser market. Here are some of the high-level points to know about Chrome:

• Uses multi-threaded processes to isolate page executions, allowing for better performance and quicker, …

Reliably Sync Google Calendar with iCal on Your Mac

Ever since I have converted over to using Gmail's online interface, I have also been using Google Calendar ever so frequently. The workflow Google invented for these products is very efficient and I enjoy using both of them.

While Google Calendar is great in …

Good Enough to Touch: Texas Hold'em App

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

KyleHayes.me Registered!

The re-launched non-country specific .me TLC has been released as of today! I registered mine, kylehayes.me, and have it pointing to this site.

Get yours as they are going by fast!

Family.com Community Launched

It's been a long time coming (and a long time since I've blogged); the newest addition to the Family.com site that I , and many of co-programmers, work on has officially been released. Months and months of research, development, and testing should hope to …

JavaScript Tip: Trim Strings with YUI

Any programmer worth his salt knows that when you perform even the most minimal validation on a set of input textboxes for a form, that you need to wrap some kind of trim function around the string. So many times, I see developers write the following as a …

Unavailable Next Two Weeks

My wife and I are finally at the end of escrow on our home in Chino Hills, California. We should be closing any day now. We've been extremely busy packing, signing, and worrying about getting stuff done. As we actually make the move and get settled into our …

Netflix Offers AppleTV Competitor

Today Netflix, Inc, the nation's most popular online DVD rental service, announced the first Netflix ready device in a series of more to come. The Netflix Player by Roku, as they're calling it, is availabel immediately and will provide over 10,000 movies to …

Review: Designing Web Navigation

In today's day and age where the Internet is a part of our everyday life, there has never been a time more appropriate now then to have really good navigation on your or your client's website. As sites grow more advanced and complex, it is vital to the success …

YUI Makes Animating the DOM Easy

Despite being an Adobe fanboy, I never cared much for how the Spry framework handles things like animations. Seemed complex at the time for basic operations. At work, they have standardized on using the YUI framework. This has been great for me because I have …

Mach-II 1.6 Beta Slated for Early June

Peter announced today on the Mach-II blog to expect the 1.6 beta release in early June. This release is bundled with a few powerful and long-awaited features. Some of these include but are not limited to: logging, caching, as well as the new ColdSpring …

Scroll Through Tabs in Flex with Mouse Wheel

I blogged the other day about an Office 2007 feature for the tabs that are apart of the ribbon in that you can use your scroll wheel to change the selected tab. I thought this was actually pretty cool.

I decided to implement it in Flex because I figure it …