Category Archives: Bookmarks

Beanstalk Does Version Control for Designers

The Beanstalk guys are starting to expand into the design arena with their latest feature announcement for Design Preview. The idea reminds me a lot of the 2-up or 4-up view in the Save for Web dialog in Photoshop, except … Continue reading

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Mozilla’s School of Webcraft

There are so many awesome things about Mozilla’s School of Webcraft – being 100% free certainly puts it in a top ten list. Classes will be between six and 10 weeks long; they’ll revolve around topics relevant to web designers … Continue reading

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Cache on Delivery

Epic hack for mining memcached data. Well worth the 20 minutes of digestion time. Cache on Delivery View more presentations from SensePost. via Slideshare.

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FCC to Developers: Push Us Forward

The whole Gov 2.0 initiative is nothing short of magical to developers like me. I mentioned previously about the MTA’s recent change of heart so it should be clear that this kind of news really makes my day… The United … Continue reading

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Ultracompressing JavaScript and CSS

Just read about an incredible way to compress JavaScript and CSS using PNGs on Sitepoint today. This hit everyone’s radar from the recent 10K Apart contest where a few contestants used this to cleverly circumvent the size budget. You can … Continue reading

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Mastering Node

@codepo8 was kind enough to share a link to Mastering Node, an open source eBook on NodeJS. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s the most complete I’ve seen so far. There’s no formal table of contents, but if you … Continue reading

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9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know

Nettuts+ a good one today: 9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know. A few good ones are on there which I didn’t know about like glob(), scandir(), gzcompress()/gzuncompress() and I’m surprised that I never knew about register_shutdown_function().

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Can the jQuery Ready Event Actually Slow Page Load?

An interesting post from Dave Ward came my way today which outlines a few conditions in which the jQuery Ready event my actually increase perceived load times. …what if $document.ready is slowing you down? In this post, I’m going show … Continue reading

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Adding Markdown Support to Notational Velocity

Steven Frank has made a wonderful contribution to the open source community today by adding Markdown support for Notational Velocity. I forked the excellent open source! Notational Velocity app, and hacked in a third pane that shows you the note … Continue reading

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Multi-Account Support for Google Accounts

This made my Sunday: although it’s been official for almost a month, I’m just now learning that Google now supports logging in to multiple accounts simultaneously. Now, you can visit google.com/accounts and click the link next to “Multiple sign-in.” After … Continue reading

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