August 2009
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Create a simple Ajax RSS Widget with Jquery
A medium to advanced user’s tutorial for using Jquery to display a set of RSS headlines as links in a widget on your page. There are code samples on this page, however if you want to follow along easier, here is the complete final file (it’s all in one HTML file for ease of use - obviously you’ll want to separate your JS and CSS out into external files..) So, suppose you want to...
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Why i moved my blog to tumblr.
In an attempt to get the content flowing again on my site, i’ve moved (in a seemingly inexplicable backwards step) from using my custom django blog, to using a custom themed tumblr blog.
Why? What the hell were you thinking? i hear you asking…
Well, firstly, tumblr is a simple, hosted solution and it comes with an iphone app, and some simple content classes that i like the look of.
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Internet High Five →
Hehe. I love geeky humour… but the funniest thing is that I almost did it, then decided I didn’t wantto put smudges on my screen.
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Down for everyone or just me? →
Down for everyone or just me is a super simple website. Basically, it lets you check if a web server is down from a third party location. The idea being, you panic because you can’t hit your web site, so you go and check it through Down for everyone to see if it’s a problem with your connectivity, or the web server - super useful!
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Concept: Semantic Markup
The term semantic markup has become another of today’s buzzwords. People always talk about it, but few of them really understand the concept. The problem is unless you’re a philosopher, the idea of semantics is about as meaningful as metaphysics.
So lets try and clarify what semantic markup is and what significance it has to the web designer.
Semantics is the study of meaning....
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“OH: Statistics are like bikinis - what they reveal is interesting, what they...”
– twitter: @freakboy3472
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doctype: stackoverflow for web designers →
doctype: a clone of stackoverflow that allows you to ask web design and dev questions and get them answered by the community.
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Digital Color Meter..
Digital Color Meter is basically your Photoshop colour picker for your entire mac desktop. Gone are the days where I needed to open a PSD just to work out the hex codes for a colour off a site.
DCM lives in the Applications/Utilities folder on your mac When you open it you are presented with a small window, the left of which shows a small zoomed image of what’s under your mouse and the...