December 2011
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November 2011
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Best jQuery Plugins of 2011 →
This is a great list of jQuery plugins. Many of these plugins I’ve used before and but there a few that I’ve never heard about but they look awesome.
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Adobe Withdraws from Mobile Flash Battlefront →
Toolkits such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch are hitting full stride with mature development frameworks that enable HTML5 developers and designers to make native iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry applications using their existing skill sets.
Adobe finally admits defeat years after Steve Jobs predicted it.
October 2011
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A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs →
minimalmac:
Mona Simpson provides, in daring yet delicate prose, the most beautiful and intimate portrait of Steve Jobs we will likely ever see.
This brought up such a wealth of emotion for me I had to pause several times to get through it. It may likely be the same for you.
If you do nothing else today, grab a box of tissues and read this.
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue →
via minimalmac:
News of Jobs’ passing first broke on Wednesday night. This issue was on newsstands by Sunday, at least, or maybe even Saturday night. Which means the Bloomberg Businessweek team must have been working like mad to make this happen, probably with very little sleep and almost assuredly under the duress of simultaneously mourning a man that many of them probably felt very strongly...
Steve Jobs: Designer First, C.E.O. Second -... →
Steve Jobs eye for the most subtle detail was impeccable. This article offers an inspiring view of Jobs as not just a CEO but a designer.
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September 2011
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Maniacal Rage: Gowalla 4 and Loss of Personal... →
Absolutely spot on blog entry by Garrett Murray.
I’ve been using Gowalla since its launch in 2009. Between Foursquare and Gowalla, the latter always seemed more interesting to me in that it took the common check-in functionality and added a fun layer of collection. You collected and traded “items” (basically, icons) and earned “pins” Read More…
August 2011
6 posts
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spin.js →
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
via 9-bits
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Improve your jQuery →
25 excellent tips
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HOWTO: Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack →
via rentzsch
Good is the enemy of Great Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8. You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.
UTF-8 is extremely sane. Well, as sane as an encoding can be that features backwards-compatibility with ASCII.
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July 2011
2 posts
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...
– Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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June 2011
8 posts
Git Cheat Sheet →
A very helpful resource…
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Typekit: Controlling the flash of unstyled text
.wf-loading { visibility: hidden; }
Originally from the Typekit blog.
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Mozilla releases Firefox 5. →
Firefox 5 includes improved support for CSS animations, HTML5 and Canvas. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.
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HTML Email Boilerplate →
Helpful HTML email resource.
May 2011
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WebP: 39.8% faster than JPEG →
By Ryan Carson at Think Vitamin.
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Spritely →
A jQuery plugin created for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript.
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ExpressionEngine: Troubleshooting Site Performance... →
A little old but definitely a must read for ExpressionEngine developers.
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What iPad apps do you recommend for web...
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YUI Compressor: Textmate Bundle →
Compress Javascript and CSS with YUI Compressor from within Textmate. A very handy resource.
April 2011
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Springloops V2 is live! →
Springloops delivered an absolutely awesome upgrade to their service. Best of all it now offers private GIT hosting. It’s definitely worth signing up for one of their reasonably priced plans.
iPhoneTracker →
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn’t record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.
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More often then I’d like to admit I need to strip an entire project of it’s SVN folders and files. Instead of going in each folder individually, I use this useful terminal command.
cd /some/of/your/folders/
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
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March 2011
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Ceaser: CSS Animation Tool →
An awesome CSS easing tool by @matthewlein that uses the classic @robpenner easing equations. (via cameronmoll)
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Quicksilver: Mac OS X at your Fingertips →
minimalmac:
Wait… What? Quicksilver has been revived?
Today is like application Christmas!
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30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize →
I meant to post this while back but now is a good time as any. This nettuts article goes over the 30 CSS Selectors that your must know as a web developer.
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Loremify →
Loremify is a one-click tool to copy Lorem Ipsum. It lets you wrap in html, specify the amount of text, and copy it to your clipboard—all in one click. It runs as a Dashboard Widget in Mac OS X.
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IE7-JS →
IE7.js is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
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Noisy →
A jQuery plugin that generates random noise to the background of an element.
February 2011
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The Philadelphia Phillies are featured prominently in this beautiful new iPad app, “Pennant” by Steve Varga. “Every team. Every game. Every play. 1951 to 2010.”
Available on the App Store for $4.99 from now through Spring Training 2011.
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Switching Keys For Values In PHP Arrays
February 2006:
I recently discovered the need to search an array for a value using PHP. The problem with the array_search() function is that it takes the value and an array as arguments and returns the key of the value found. Instead I had the key and needed to return the value. The problem was easily solved with the array_flip() function. The array_flip() function switches the key with the...