Published in News, Rants and Ephemera on Friday, December 10th, 2004
Some serious live search: Google Suggest
No, not a "we're not dead" post, a !WOW! post.
Via Webmasterworld, Google Suggest Beta; talk about live search, great stuff from Google. Type in your search and it will autocomplete the terms for you and show you the number of results!
Sitepoint's web devlopment books have helped me out on many occasions both for finding a quick solution to a problem but also to level out my knowlegde in weaker areas (JavaScript, I'm looking at you!). I am recommending the following titles from my bookshelf:
I started freelancing by diving in head first and getting on with it. Many years and a lot of experience later I was still able to take away some gems from this book, and there are plenty I wish I had thought of beforehand. If you are new to freelancing and have a lot of questions (or maybe don't know what questions to ask!) do yourself a favor and at least check out the sample chapters.
The author line-up for this book says it all. 7 excellent developers show you how to get your JavaScript coding up to speed with 7 chapters of great theory, code and examples. Metaprogramming with JavaScript (chapter 5 from Dan Webb) really helped me iron out some things I was missing about JavaScript. That said each chapter really helped me to develop my JavaScript skills beyond simple Ajax calls and html insertion with libs like JQuery.
Like the other books listed here, this provides a great reference for the PHP developer looking to have the right answers from the right people at their fingertips. I tend to pull this off the shelf when I need to delve into new territory and usually find a workable solution to keep development moving. This only needs to happen once and you recoup the price of the book in time saved from having to develop the solution or find the right pattern for getting the job done..
Comments and Feedback
Fun with live search : Try typing your name in the field and see how "famous" you are (not)...
Wow! That's very interesting. It seems everyone is beginning to use the LiveSearch idea. That's great! This is so going into the bookmarks. Thanks for the link.
I got to "Brian Beh" before it suggested my name. Pretty cool.
I wonder if they're going to filter results for content. At "Bria" the suggestion was Brianna Banks. Good be some adult content issues there.
Cool, now we'll see another branch of the SEO business.
Ha, it certainly is useful for quickly accessing a list of number of results...
I love it. I ran across that link earlier today, through this page. Looks cool too, eh?