Today we launched two big updates. Socialblur.com is now officially part of the Papermashup network and you hopefully should have already noticed, but we released re-designs for both sites. In the coming months you’ll see more content bridge across both …
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MySpaceID allows MySpace Users to easily come into your site and get going by bringing their identity with them. By allowing Users to link their MySpace account with your site, a Developer can enable social functionality. This guide is designed …
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I was sat in the sun at the weekend and sporadically decided to do a little project like wedeliver you can read about the adventure I had building the 24hr project here. This project on the other hand probably took …
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A quick search on Google for the term ‘Social Media’ currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet …
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I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through …
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Is your site reaching audiences that would probably rather content in their native language? we’ll there’s a simple solution which models itself on the popular social sharing site AddThis. TranslateThis developed by Jon Raasch, a front-end web programmer from Portland, …
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As I was traveling home from work tonight reading the London Evening Standard, as I usually do, I couldn’t help but notice the headline: “At 25, I’m not past it at work, I’m ‘before it.” This got me thinking about …
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Thanks to everyone who entered the competition! A good number of you entered and hopefully we’ll run more in the future. Congratulations to, @jamieyork @santanajames @encantado_net Didn’t Win? EasyPHPWebsites.com has provided PaperMashup readers with a special discount price of just …
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API Knowledge A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched …
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Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It …
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I wrote a post a while back when I purchased my iobridge module which you can use to control switched and sensor. After that post I had my module rigged up in my office at home just monitoring the room …
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There i was settling in for a night of coding when i check nettuts.com for some design inspiration and bang my site’s featured! What a pleasant suprise, I even made it to the thumbnail of the post which im quite …
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If you type in a URL to a web site in your browser and that URL returns data in a structured format, then a basic API is already in place. For example, when you access an RSS feed, you’re essentially …
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I thought I’d share this great little site for displaying website thumbnails for free and unbranded! http://snapcasa.com/ Move over Websnapr, Snapcasa’s coming through! Websnapr has somewhat dominated the market over the years with their thumbnail generation service as they boast …
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Here are a few web trends that i think we will see emerge in 2009. Firstly IE6 must die this year right? I’m sure every web developer would be happy to see the backside of IE6. There’s a fairly good …
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