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Last.fm: recent tracks.- Cinnamon Chasers – Wishing For The Fire
- Cinnamon Chasers – The World Is Yours
- Cinnamon Chasers – Candle Lights
- Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe
- Cinnamon Chasers – White Flag
- The Offspring – So Alone
- The Cult – Fire Woman
- Fun Lovin' Criminals – Korean Bodega
- Fun Lovin' Criminals – The View Belongs To Everyone
- Fun Lovin' Criminals – Up On The Hill
Google Reader shared- The Hidden Magic in TextMate
- ‘Designing Obama’ Digital Edition
- Social Networking Made Easy - Chapter 17
- Seattlest Pix 23August10
- Ummm … I guess
- Make music with circles
- A powerful replicable mobilized database: CouchDB
- (by Joseph Robertson)
- How to use TextMate
- Can we stop with the Ninja and Rockstar hype already?
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- YouTube - JOHN CLEESE WCF
- Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography
- 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition
- Continuous Deployment, Code Review and Pre-Tested Commits on Digg4 | Digg About
- Testing Mobile JavaScript
- Can we stop with the Ninja and Rockstar hype already?
- HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
- HTML5 Reset
- 25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know | Nettuts+
- Opinion: 10 reasons why New Zealand house prices have another 10% to fall | interest.co.nz
- Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines
- jQuery Deconstructed
- The Chicago Manual of Style Online
- Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers - Smashing Magazine
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Category Archives: Coding
Getting XML data into Symfony, automatically.
The problem We have a complex XML file with many different node types, etc. supplied by a third party via a URL reference. There’s an initial dump, and then an incremental update every couple of weeks, with additions, deletions and … Continue reading
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Goodbye .clearfix, old friend.
You all know the old ‘floated elements inside a container cause the container to collapse’ problem? Well, up until recently, I’d always just called on an old friend, .clearfix, and he’d sorted it out for me. I met .clearfix three … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Link, Tools, Web Standards
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Web site performance
Last week I read Steve Souders’ High Performance Web Sites. While I already have a fairly good understanding of site performance, having completed a fairly extensive performance analysis of tvnz.co.nz a few years ago and being familiar with Yahoo!’s YSlow … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Commentary, Design, Tools, Web Standards
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Extensible CSS
Cameron Moll has published Part 1 of his new series The Highly Extensible CSS Interface. He looks at meaningful, lightweight markup, resetting CSS, and resolution dependence.
Posted in Coding, Commentary, Web Standards
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Jeff Croft goes brown
Jeff Croft has redesigned – and it’s brown, yo. I must say, it’ll take a bit of getting used to.
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Charts and graphs and stuff
It’s funny how things come in droves. A good friend of mine has, over the years, written a few applications that require graphing. He has written them as VB applications and when I’ve suggested he make them as web-apps, one … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Commentary, JavaScript
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How to hack mintshot; the problems continue.
Here’s another post about mintshot hacks. I’m not sure what happened to the page I linked to the other day; it seems to be down. [Edit: Here's the google cache of that page.] There are a few good lessons that … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Commentary, Design
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Win millions of Mintshot dollars!!
Mintshot is a mess! Cheating, hacks, security flaws… Wow! I must say, I wasn’t overly impressed with Mintshot’s shoddy layouts and presentation, but I never thought it would be so crappy underneath!!
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Frameworks. CSS and otherwise.
Jeff Croft hosts a hornets’ nest of a debate over the use (or not) of frameworks in web development. It may pay to first read his previous post on this topic. And probably Jeff’s article on frameworks that he wrote … Continue reading
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Does developing in .aspx produce bloated code?
This started out as a comment in response to Robbie’s question on my previous post, but thought I’d turn it into another post: So is it that they are written in aspx which makes them bloated?. Well, I guess that’s … Continue reading →