Nov 24
Wikipedia loses loads of editors∞
“Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.”
Nov 19
Microsoft announces border-radius in IE9∞
Yea, they have built in a border radius method, but still only get 32/100 in the Acid3 test. Doh!
Nov 18
A proposal to make downloading web pages faster∞
“What if there was a backwards compatible way to transfer all of the resources that are used on every single page in your site — CSS, JS, images, anything else — in a single HTTP request at the start of the first visit to the page? This is what Resource Package support in browsers will let you do.”
Spiderman + Monopoly = Spiderman Monopoly∞
I’ve always loved Monopoly. It’s one of my favourite games. Spiderman is pretty cool too. Drum roll please… I give you, Spiderman Monopoly!
Does this sound familiar to you, too?∞
It’s no surprise than non-techies don’t understand techy stuff. However, it can be rather annoying when you solve something so complex and the other person just says “cool”.
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 no longer a beast on Macs!∞
This new version seems to be about twice as efficient as its predecessor. Hopefully this means I will be able to play the BBC iPlayer on my old, old Macbook without having to listen to the whirls of the fans.
Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer∞
It looks like the Firebug of Firefox, the Web Inspector of Safari/Chrome/Webkit. dynaTrace seems like an excellent application to help Web developers fine tune their sites and fix those pesky bugs.
Nov 17
jQuery for PHP∞
“phpQuery is a server-side, chainable, CSS3 selector driven Document Object Model (DOM) API based on jQuery JavaScript Library.” Fun, but kind of redundant.
Nov 11
Is there life outside our planet? Yes, in all likelihood∞
“Research here on planet Earth reveals that life forms can be tough. In fact, wherever it was once thought that no life could exist, more and more organisms are being found that not only live, but thrive and evolve.”
Nov 10
Typekit officially launches∞
“This will change the way you design websites. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal. “
jQuery: XML Parser∞
“jParse is a jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly and easily parse XML. About time there was a decent XML parser for jQuery!
Nov 6
Twitter: Thinking about buying followers?∞
“I’ve been carrying out a small experiment in one of the areas of greatest potential abuse of social media: Twitter marketing. If you Google “Twitter buy followers,” you’ll see lots of choices. One outfit called Quick Online Tips offers 100,000 followers for a mere $3,479.”
Nov 5
How Mr. Q (Disney) Manufactured Emotion∞
“The last thing I would have guessed was that this wrinkly 81-year-old played an instrumental role in the development of the modern theme park. Mr. Q was Disney’s audio experience engineer, and he designed the original ambient music system for Disney World in 1968.”
jQuery: Mega Drop Down Menus∞
Remember those cool mega drop down menus on the White House site? This is a tutorial on how to create your very own.
Nov 4
The New MSN Homepage Debuts∞
“The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival.”
Nov 3
Convert those pesky .icns files to PNG’s∞
I use the built in OSX image conversion so infrequently I always forget the command the moment I close Terminal. iConvertIcons has saved me that hassle.
jQuery: Fancy facebook-like dynamic inputs∞
Know those fancy Facebook inputs where you type peoples names and it auto-completes for you? Well, you can have that too on your site.
jQuery: Truncate loooong paragraphs∞
The good thing about this plugin is it doesn’t present the ‘More’ link mid-word, so it’s much more user friendly. A host of parameters means this would be useful for almost any situation.
jQuery: Easy Pagination∞
An easy way to implement stylish pagination without the user needing to reload the page every time. Might not be so good for hundreds of pages, but I haven’t tested the performance of it yet.
Nov 2
Myth of the fold in modern web design∞
…this post will explain how having all the content above the fold isn’t relevant today.
