Create a VirtualHost setup for your development machine to allow for easier team collaboration. Technologists all have different configurations for running things on their local machines but in three steps, you can easily facilitate your teams’ development!

In 2011, Big Spaceship and Adobe launched The Expressive Web, an interactive showcase for HTML5. We use various colorful objects to demonstrate the new features of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We built our own tool for creating and editing these objects, which we are now making open source.

Here at Big Spaceship we’ve been tooling around with extensions for Google Chrome and built an extension that instantly clears your browser’s cache with one easy click. Oddly enough, something that no other extension in the Chrome Web Store seems to offer.

One of the most powerful aspects of Facebook is the ability for content to be quickly propagated through people sharing with their friends. In this case we want to allow someone to share some Flash based content on his/her wall, and have the application know when the sharing has been successfully completed.

Websites are more frequently using shebang (#!) as a method for switching pages using AJAX. Google has a whole spec for how to use this method but also allow your site to be indexable via crawlers. This article is going to argue, why do we need that at all?

I’ve been tinkering around with a million and one different things lately. One of my latest ones is an online code explorer. I have been producing a lot of code and every once in a while I need a quick way to display it, as a package.

After we had a Processing workshop with Jer Thorpe he got to talking about Mongo, so we decided to have a gander at this “scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database.”