March 2010
1 post
WatchWatch
The hot new way to work on Python (Django) projects.
Mar 3rd
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June 2009
8 posts
CSS Animations Primer
webkitbits: This is our first guest post on WebKitBits, from Jon Neal, web designer and developer. More info about Jon can be found at the bottom of this post. If you are interest in writing a guest article for WebKitBits, please contact David Kaneda. CSS animations are HTML DOM element animation effects that function via the CSS layer (as opposed to through Javascript or Flash, for...
Jun 22nd
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Startup screens for mobile web apps (iPhone 3.0)
webkitbits: In the most recent iPhone and iPod Touch software upgrade, Apple added the ability to show a startup image for websites saved to a user’s home screen. Until now, these full-screen web apps would simply show a (poorly) compressed screenshot of the previous page viewed or nothing at all. To add a startup screen, simply include a the following tag in the head of your document and create...
Jun 22nd
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Glyphboard 2.0 →
mrgan: Just in time for today’s release of iPhone OS 3.0 with its oh-so-handy pasteboard, I’ve updated a little project of mine, Glyphboard. It’s a sort of keyboard which lets you type glyphs not available on any of the standard iPhone keyboards. These glyphs include , ☂, ☺, ✔, and even ♫. You may find this handy for Twitter, text messaging, emails, and I’m sure I don’t know what else. A...
Jun 18th
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1 tag
Jun 15th
1 tag
“FYI: Transmit will use your SSH keys if you leave the password field blank when...”
– @postpostmodern
Jun 8th
Jun 5th
Coding like it's 1999 ~ Authentic Boredom →
HTML 4.01 Strict Fonts in px A tongue in cheek reference to going back to using tables The only thing I found amiss with this article is that he says that HTML 5 will replace divs. That’s not true. It’s just adding some semantic tags that will serve to replace a certain set of nearly-standard IDs/classes people happen to normally put on divs: (nav, header, article, etc.)
Jun 4th
Jun 4th
March 2009
1 post
WebKitBits →
matthewb: David Kaneda’s new project, a tumblelog focussed on Apple’s WebKit browser framework, and in particular its use in the mobile space. Some good tricks and techniques here already.
Mar 24th
7 notes
February 2009
5 posts
2 tags
Feb 28th
3 tags
Heroku | Why Instant Deployment Matters →
At this rate, in less than 3 years we’ll be spending as much time deploying and provisioning as we spend developing. Via ProfessorSideburns.
Feb 23rd
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“I love URLs. I dream about them at night. I think about them before I think...”
– Adrian Holovaty (co-creator of Django and creator of EveryBlock) speaking at Webstock 09. (via Joshua Porter via matthewb)
Feb 19th
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“We don’t want another new UI, XHTML and CSS export, a JavaScript pop-up menu...”
– Nathan Pitman’s open letter to developers encourages them to create a light-weight competitor to Adobe’s Fireworks, the latest version of which has major bugs that remain unpatched five months after its release. I’m a Fireworks devotee since version 1.0; its approach is streets ahead of Photoshop...
Feb 16th
9 notes
2 tags
Recreating the button | stopdesign →
Feb 5th
January 2009
12 posts
Daily dose of PHP, Django, and Rails from The...
DailyPHP DailyDjango DailyRails
Jan 28th
2 tags
Dive into Python 3 →
A work in Progress. I love online books.
Jan 27th
The Setup →
The hardware and software used by some tech luminaries. Interesting, but it’s always good to remember that tone is in your fingers.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
2 tags
Rails versus Django →
My advice is simply to ignore the irrelevant virulence directed toward a particular tool. Find coherent analysis of the features (documentation is a good start) and compare from there. Your framework will not make your project any better or worse; It is simply a delivery mechanism.
Jan 22nd
1 tag
“NOTE: Since Version 2.6, wp-config.php can be moved to the directory directly...”
– Editing wp-config.php / WordPress Codex Jason Tan discovers more goodies.
Jan 21st
Show Your GIT Branch Name In Your Prompt →
I finally did this, and, well, I think I like it.
Jan 19th
1 tag
jQuery API Browser →
matthewb: jQuery 1.3 is out, with some good improvements. One of the most useful is an overhauled API browser, also available as an Air app to run on your desktop, should you roll like that.
Jan 14th
git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru →
Jan 14th
1 tag
Jan 5th
MetaProgramming - Extending Ruby for Fun and... →
This presentation by Dave Thomas is a couple years old, but it’s something that anyone learning Ruby and Rails should watch.
Jan 2nd
2 tags
Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails →
A local company, OpenRain using RoR, is able to complete monster projects for a few thousand dollars with a level of testing that would make aviation systems engineers salivate.
Jan 2nd
December 2008
24 posts
Merb is Rails is Merb →
Holy crap. (and wow)
Dec 23rd
1 tag
Dec 22nd
1 note
6 tags
Mojombo's Jekyll →
Like Phooey or Yark using Ruby (or Hobix, but that’s Ruby also and far too intense for me). Apparently they’re going to use this on GitHub Pages. Now GitHub is a CMS.
Dec 17th
5 tags
Dec 16th
2 tags
BuddyPress: Another Free Social App →
Automattic releases a social network plugin of some sort for WordPress MU. Could this be a competitor for Pinax as well as Motion?
Dec 16th
2 tags
WatchWatch
The Fork Queue — GitHub
Dec 16th
4 tags
“Business opportunity: cheap pre-configured VMs for PHP/Django/Rails etc, with...”
– Simon Willison
Dec 15th
Rails Templates →
Very excited about this.
Dec 12th
4 tags
Dynamic Image Replacements in Django →
Between this and Typogrify, Django is a good place for typography.
Dec 10th
2 tags
Dec 10th
2 tags
“We will test all our markup and CSS in current versions of all major browsers...”
– Andy Clarke
Dec 10th
2 tags
Insider Guide to GitHub →
Via ni.hili.st.
Dec 8th
1 note
2 tags
Create A Style Toolkit, Save Time and Mental... →
Dec 8th
1 tag
Dec 8th
2 tags
Not My Gorilla →
Dec 8th
1 tag
jQuery Delay →
matthewb: A tiny plugin to add a delay between jQuery functions. In the past I’ve resorted to JavaScript’s setTimeout method, or faked a delay using jQuery’s animate method with identical start and end values. This might be better.
Dec 7th
7 notes
Tender →
“Support for your product: Knowledge Base, Helpdesk, Forums” Looks nice.
Dec 5th
4 tags
Trey: I tried using passenger on slicehost last night
Jason: how'd that go?
Trey: I think I just screwed something up with rails
Jason: oh
Trey: got 500 errors
Jason: that's a lot of errors
Dec 5th
Freckle →
matthewb: Time tracking rethought, by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs. Also just launched, with a free 30-day trial. From the manifesto: We’re freelancers, consultants, and rogue agents, too. We saw where other software let us down and we built freckle in exactly the opposite way.
Dec 4th
2 notes
Sifter →
matthewb: Bug and issue tracking web application, just launched.
Dec 4th
5 notes
1 tag
Dec 4th
2 tags
Dec 3rd
CSSiPhone — Screens for all your iPhone needs. →
mattmcinerney: A CSS gallery for iPhone specific sites.
Dec 3rd
9 notes