Search UIs are getting richer and more interesting by the day. Google page snapshots, animated disclosures of richer data on mouse over, and endless pagination are great examples. Often this type of functionality has a dark side. As each of these features is layered on and integrated with our HTML, it can begin to feel like death by a thousand paper cuts.

Given two points on the surface of a sphere the Haversine Formula can be used to find the shortest distance between the points. Well what do ya know, the Earth is a sphere. Well not really it’s a spheroid, the poles are a bit flattened. Even that does not account for the various irregularities in [...]

I recently was tasked with creating a Firefox add-on or extension for a client and here are some of the things I wish I had known before I began. XML User Interface Language (XUL) pronounced “zool” is the programming language created by Mozilla used to create Firefox extensions and cross platform applications. It is a [...]