Category ‘Web Development’

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  1. GeSHify has moved

    Apr 2nd 2009, 18:52

    My syntax highlighting extension for ExpressionEngine has moved to a new home:

    http://geshify.com/

  2. GeSHify update

    Aug 5th 2008, 18:05

    GeSHify, the syntax highlighting extension for ExpressionEngine has been updated.

  3. I took it! And so should you

    Jul 29th 2008, 17:14

    A List Apart has published the 2008 survey for people who make websites. If you work in the web business, you should go ahead and take the survey as well.

    A List Apart Survey banner 2008

  4. Thunderbird IMAP push email

    Jul 12th 2008, 12:18

    Using Thunderbird as the e-mail client of your choice and the IMAP protocol to fetch and manage your mail?

  5. Probably the biggest RSS icon I have ever seen

    Jun 13th 2008, 18:07

    There’s a certain trend in so-called web 2.0 design to have ever bigger icons for RSS feeds (What are RSS feeds?).
    Now I recently saw an RSS icon that beats the pants of all other RSS[…]

  6. A rant on limited password fields

    May 27th 2008, 21:58

    You register for a new service, type in all your details, choose a password - and after 16 characters the password field stops accepting your input.

  7. 9-slice scaling in HTML

    May 15th 2008, 16:59

    9-slice scaling is a technique from Adobe’s Flash product line and has been adapted into Fireworks. It is used to scale certain parts of a symbol different from others when resizing the symbol (i.e. not scaling the corners at all) to make corners and borders look the same at every size of the symbol. With a little CSS and HTML this can be done in browsers, too.

  8. Up or Out: employees in IT companies quitting

    Apr 30th 2008, 21:14

    I just read an article in Alex’ Soapbox on IT professionals and their motives to quit a job at a certain company. Having just finished a 6-month-internship at a local new media agency[…]

  9. The smaller the error the bigger the bug

    Apr 26th 2008, 12:05

    Bug tracking in software development can be a pain - especially when there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind the bug.

  10. I have a dream…

    Mar 31st 2008, 23:16

    Ads - That’s how you make money on the Internet. And since everybody wants money ads are spilled all over the Internet. What if…

  11. Webmail done right

    Feb 22nd 2008, 19:25

    I recently bought a (gs) shared hosting package at mediatemple.net. I’m not going to talk about their system now, but about their webmail client, which is provided by @Mail, their mail[…]

  12. Jing

    Feb 3rd 2008, 17:36

    Jing is a small application allowing you to create screenshots and screencasts up to 5 minutes - nothing revolutionary here. The new thing is, that Jing is capable of storing these files[…]

  13. Keeping yourself out of your Google Analytics statistics

    Jan 31st 2008, 22:54

    Using Google Analytics and wondered how many clicks you add to your site(s) on your own? Here’s an old way to keep yourself out updated for the new Google Analytics JavaScript.

  14. GeSHify: a GeSHi syntax highlighting extension for Expression Engine

    Jan 30th 2008, 21:51

    I recently wanted to post some source code on this Expression Engine-powered blog - I thought about some syntax highlighting to improve readability. However, after asking Google and the Expression Engine forums search it turned out there had been several attempts to integrate a syntax highlighter into Expression Engine, but these plugins or extensions were either outdated or not available anymore. *sigh*

  15. Forms with WuFoo

    Dec 20th 2007, 22:08

    Do you create web forms a lot? Doing a lot of copy and paste on this task?

  16. HtmlEntities Adobe AIR widget

    Nov 27th 2007, 0:27

    Do you know the HTML Entity Character Lookup at Left Logic (leftlogic.com)? It comes in pretty handy, when you need special characters and their HTML entites, and it’s much faster than scanning through hundreds of rows of characters. I made an Adobe AIR Flash version.

  17. Google announces OpenSocial API

    Nov 4th 2007, 14:06

    Are you a Facebook member? Did you join MySpace for some of your friends don’t have Facebook accounts? There’s a solution, and it’s called OpenSocial.

  18. Experiences with ClipShare Pro 2.0

    Oct 14th 2007, 14:48

    There’s quite a market for YouTube clones, it seems. I’ve been recently working with three of these scripts, namely the commercial ClipShare Pro 2.0, the free PHPmotion and the Real Estate Video Upload Software I wrote a while ago. My experiences with these scripts are quite mixed, though.