May 2010
1 post
Google or sIFR ? →
April 2010
7 posts
Git and Svn free repositories
A bit like Github without the community, but with free private repos, and with Git and Svn.
https://www.assembla.com/plans
Hum…ah,. yes, EllisLabs is using this
Adobe Gives Up on Flash for iPhone, iPad →
“Adobe on Tuesday evening said it is ceasing investment in a software tool that enables Flash developers to port software into native iPhone and iPad apps.”
Touch Gesture Reference Guide →
A clear and concise reference guide covering the various touch user interface gestures, and how they are implemented/supported on different devices.
HTML5 presentation →
Great presentation detailing the various fantastic new Javascript APIs, HTML and CSS tricks that HTML5 brings us. There’s quite a bit of stuff in here that I had no idea about.
Link types in HTML5 →
Fascinating rundown of the various options authors have when using the rel attribute to specify the types of link (be it a or element) in a HTML5 document. I particularly like rel=”next” and “prev”.
Radar is a native Mac app that notifies you of... →
Really nice implementation, great way of keeping up with Basecamp.
Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions →
March 2010
5 posts
“You’ll rarely regret cutting scope.”
– Jason Fried
Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets →
SECRETS REVEALED!
Code Bubbles : the future of IDEs ? →
Only available on the Crapp Store! →
Radical web interface →
February 2010
7 posts
Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery →
Nice JQuery powered cross-browser form element skinnery.
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Using Zend Framework with CodeIgniter →
CommonJS
Three recent posts from CommonJS contributors:
CommonJS: the First Year looks at what’s been achieved this year
The emerging JS application platform talks about the event-based concurrency model (found in Node), and gives a great overview of CommonJS implementations.
If that’s not enough, Ars Technica has also a post on the subject
Great year for Javascript !
“I’m sick of the travesty that calls itself “mobile web development” but mostly...”
– QuirksBlog
Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images →
Facebook HipHop: transforming PHP into C++
Facebook HTML-generation needs seemed to strain PHP capacity to the limit. Since rewriting the whole website was not an option, they wrote HipHop, a PHP to C++ transformer instead: they keep writing PHP code but get a significant speed boost and minimize their memory usage.
HipHop will be open-sourced, given PHP’s ubiquity it will be interesting to see who start using and contributing to...
Password Hash : slower is better →
Edit: another good post on passwords, mentioning bcrypt
January 2010
10 posts
“The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather...”
– http://al3x.net/2010/01/28/ipad.html
Pure CSS Coke can →
Nerdy interviews... lots of Mac users →
CodeIgniter and Doctrine →
Doctrine is an Object Relational Mapper for PHP. It’s OK if you don’t know this term. It basically means that you can map your database tables to classes in your web application. And instances of these classes (i.e. objects) represent records in the database…..
Yet another PHP framework →
Ben Sekulowicz: Tech talk given at Cirius →
Nice overview talk from Ben about using HTML5/CSS2.1+3 in a gracefully degrading manner, geeking it up a notch with Modernizr.
JQuery 1.4 released →
When in doubt, timebox it. →
When you’re at a development crossroads — you have something working, but there’s a ‘better’ way that you want to try — and on a tight deadline, set a short, FIXED amount of time to try your alternative. If you can’t get it working, scrap it. And be strict with your ‘timebox’.
December 2009
9 posts
Real time messaging for the web →
Javascript server-side overview →
Microsoft admits code theft for Chinese blog Juku →
Pwned. As I belive the kids say.
How I hire programmers
Sounds similar to Jordan’s approach !
Optimizing Codeigniter apps →
Fighting against low standards
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with people who (to my biased eyes) seem to spend more time on the conference circuit than pushing pixels and sharpening syntax, but today is one of those days.
I find myself agreeing with Mr Andy Budd about “The Sorry State of Web Design Education”, and by extension the state of Web Development Education.
As an entirely self taught web...
Modernizr →
Javascript library that detects support for modern browser features, whilst giving developers options for fallbacks for legacy browsers such as IE6. Nice work.
Bulletproof @font-face syntax « Paul Irish →
Bulletproof implementation of @font-face that takes care of Safari, Firefox, and IE when using CSS3’s font-face syntax for loading fonts.
It’s 2009, and we still have to use the equivalent of box-model hacking in order to consistently implement a NEW CSS syntax. Legacy is not an excuse. It’s shoddy from browser manufacturers … shoddy.
Turn static files into an API with YQL →
November 2009
13 posts
The Google Maps API V3 →
In addition to a heap of new features and functions, the latest version of the Google Maps API ensures that optimised maps are displayed for mobile devices such as the iPhone or handsets running the Android operating system. Great stuff.
Keeping CSS Files DRY with .less →
Those of you that followed Joe’s talk a few weeks back about SASS , will know about how excited he was about it, and with good reason. I’ve just stumbled across {less} , which looks like a similar tool (ie it supports mixins, variables and operations, and is compiled locally using Ruby). However i think the differences might make it a better fit for for us. They are: 1. It handles...
6 tags
jqplot →
Jquery form validation →
Funky form validation. Not a replacement for server side validation of course ; )
Apple's mistake →
The Alliance for Code Excellence →
The Bad Code Offset provides a convenient and rational approach for balancing out the bad code we all have created at one time or another throughout our lifetime—even when we can’t go back and fix it directly.
Which is more useful? Google's links or the actual... →
Is google a better designer than you? I have to agree that for plenty of sites, Google does a better job of finding a site’s ‘killer’ content than any amount of research/design beforehand.
Transforms →
CSS3 transformations
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hoverIntent jQuery Plug-in →
hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user’s intent… Why? To delay or prevent the accidental firing of animations or ajax calls.
freckle: time tracking rethought →
Wonderful in more ways than I have the time or inclination to list. Beautiful data visualisations, a slicker time-entry form than I’ve seen anywhere before, and just the most wonderful copy.
I heart freckle.
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Euro cookies set to leave a bad taste in the mouth... →
A new EU law says that a cookie can be stored on a user’s computer, or accessed from that computer, only if the user “has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information”.
An exception exists where the cookie is “strictly necessary” for the provision of a service “explicitly requested” by the user – so cookies can...