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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 26 Feb 2009 at 9:22
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Sam Stephenson of 37signals has released Sprockets, a Ruby library that helps to organise multiple JavaScript files neatly into one single, deployable file. Sprockets takes multiple JavaScript files from across directories and generates one single file that contains all of them. The obvious advantage is that you, as a developer, have the ability to organise your JavaScript into multiple files without the extra HTTP requests. It is certainly a very speedy way to serve JavaScript to your users.
Even though I have never developed any website…
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- Matt Oakes
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- Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 22:20
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Apple have suddenly released a beta version of Safari 4, their web browser, which they seem to be marketing as the latest version that people should use, so it must be fairly stable at the minute. The new features are both cosmetic and under-the-hood.
The rendering engine now uses a much newer version of Webkit, which supports things like HTML 5 with offline storage and passes the Acid3 test. Safari 4 also features the Nitro Engine, a much faster JavaScript engine, which should help to keep pass with Mozilla Firefox 3.1's enhanced JavaScri…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 19 Feb 2009 at 17:24
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Some cool news came from Opera Software this week, who announced partnerships with both Yahoo! and Vodafone. First, Yahoo! Mobile is going to include an integrated version of Opera Mini, allowing the application's users to access the Internet directly. Second, Opera have developed a custom version of Opera Mini for Vodafone aimed at low- and mid-priced mobile phones. Both of these announcements are exciting endeavours for Opera that will bring their mobile browser to even more users around the globe.
The interesting news to me is the part…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 20:55
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Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transforms to Firefox. However, Webkit uses the -webkit-transform property and Firefox uses the -moz-transform property. The question I ask is: what is wrong with just transform? Do we really need proprietary CSS properties? Isn't that entirely counterintuitive to web standards?
Basically, the answer boils down to that, yes, proprietary CSS properti…
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- Douglas Brunner
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- Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 20:26
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I'm nearing the time when I need to start benchmarking the code of a project I'm working on and I have been browsing around the web for some various tips on optimising PHP code. So far I've come across a few fairly authoritative-looking lists with up to 63 different tips for optimising PHP code (one of which is the original list with a number of new tips added). The best formatted list is at PHP Bench; however, it's a fairly limited sample. The lists at Reinhold Weber's website and Chazzucka contain significantly more tips, but don't provide…
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- Matt Oakes
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- Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 4:24
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Sitepoint is one of the largest web development communities on the Internet. As well as publishing many articles and blogs on their website, they also offer full books about web development. They are based in Melbourne, Australia.
As you probably have heard, there are fires making their way through Australia that are claiming lives and destroying entire towns.
To help support the people affected by the fires, Sitepoint is having a massive sale on their PDF books. You can, for the next 3 days (until 13th February), buy 5 books from them…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 7 Feb 2009 at 11:47
Google Analytics is one of the better services available to track the traffic on your website. Any passionate webmaster, like myself, is constantly checking their statistics. I came across a fantastic application called Analytics App that brings Google Analytics to your iPhone, for those people who need to check their website stats even when they are on the go. The application also works on an iPod Touch.
I have not tried out this application myself because I do not use Analytics, but I have read some good reviews about it. It certai…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 5 Feb 2009 at 21:28
For those of you using the popular code editor TextMate, I have come across a great theme that is geared towards web developers. Zachary Johnson has developed a TextMate theme just for web development that assigns specific highlighting and colouring to each web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP). Most web documents contain a mixture of code, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. However, Textmate does not naturally handle this scenario of multiple code types in one document very well. This is where Zachary's theme comes into play.
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- Matt Oakes
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- Mon 2 Feb 2009 at 8:14
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Awhile ago, I found a nice web development website called Smashing Magazine. The vast majority of their content consists of top 10, top 50, and top 100 lists of information and tools that are of interest to web designers. Most of these lists are generally not of interest to me; however, one of them really stood out as being a useful list that I could use. The list is of their top 50 PHP tools, ranging from debugging tools to PHP frameworks, is particularly useful. One of my favourite tools that is listed is one that I've just began using ca…
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