Nick Hand is a graphic and web designer who lives in Alaska. When it came time to design his new portfolio he wanted to use some slick effects to make it stand out a bit. He ran across the side scrolling effect that I detailed in several articles and liked it enough to use it.

The final product is very creative and utilizes the effect very well I think. I was proud to help him through some of the stickier spots he ran into while implementing it.

If anyone else needs help with any of the articles that I have on the site, please feel free to contact me. I love seeing my tutorials “at work”, so if you use one, let me know and I will give you a little link love.

Great job Nick!

So the last few weeks have been crazy busy. I have been completely swamped with client work, and while that is a good problem to have, it does take away time to do other stuff (like blogging!).

One of the things I have been working on deals with handling large blobs of data. Its a bit of a tangent since it has absolutely nothing to do with UI, but I figured that since there are a lot of developers reading this site, it might be helpful.

So what do I mean by large amounts of data? Well, for the app I am building we were testing our theoretical limits for performance reasons. Imagine a grid or an Excel spreadsheet that has 700 columns (Excel itself only allows 256) and 30,000 rows. That basically equates to 1.65 million cells in the grid. Now if you compare that lump of data to what, say, Google throws around, its pretty insignificant; however, when it comes to keeping it in memory and accessing it quickly it is a bit beefy.

Most of the time you would get around this problem by paging through the data somehow, or having some sort of filter. Unfortunately for us, we didn’t have this luxury. The application needed the whole kit and caboodle accessible to it at all times. With that as the challenge we went to work.

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