Apple and Google's recent pithy exchanges with each other remind me of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. I think we're at the point in the story where the dwarves and elves are about to battle it out, just before both are simultaneously attacked by a massive army of goblins.
For the handful of folks wanting to see my jQuery slideshow with a crossfade effect, the following code includes the necessary modifications so that at the moment one slide begins to fade out the next begins to fade in.
Over the past few weeks I've been delving into a lot of things that have always been on my todo list, but always seemed too esoteric or complex to explore.
Since it came out a couple years ago, I've held onto a fascination of sorts with the Adobe AIR runtime. The idea of developing desktop applications with web technologies is very appealing to me. In the past few days I've finally got around to writing Adobe AIR support directly into my Hierophant PHP framework.
Recently, I had the good fortune to see my newest book published, Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery. Suffice to say, I've become a pretty big fan of jQuery, and how effortless it makes certain development tasks. If you're not familiar with jQuery, consider having a look at my book, which provides a relatively comprehensive introduction to this ever more ubiquitous JavaScript library.