A Popurls Clone with PHP, jQuery, Awesomeness
Good people of the Internets, I know a good deal of you frequently visit some sort of social website and/or aggregator such as Popurls, Reddit, Digg, Developer Zone, or what have you. After a deep and thorough analysis of my visitor statistics (read: pulling data out of my ass), many of you seem to like articles about PHP. This is not surprising, as PHP is a very popular (scripting) language. Then again, why anybody would want to read my incoherent ramblings is still a mystery... Read More
Flash, King of the Impossible
If you have been using a web browser to surf the Internet at any point in time since 1996 (thank you, Tim Berners-Lee), you’ve probably encountered Adobe Flash in one way or another. In short, you have. Be it a CPU hogging banner on your favorite news site or a special CPU hogging movie at your favorite web 2.0 porn site (you know it, I know it, the neighbour who steals your DSL knows it. Livejasmin.com is roughly #30 in Alexa’s ranking and PornHub’s at #55.... Read More
CSS3 pseudo-class selector emulation for IE 5.5 – 8 and html5 with video
While gathering information as a part of my ongoing plan to be omniscient, if came across something that makes IE behave like a capable browser. Although to be fair, IE 8 is actually not that bad a browser – in the way that Star Wars Episodes 1-3 are not that bad. So, yeah, you do the math. I mean, Jar Jar. Pisses me off just thinking about it. Mr Keith Clark has been conjuring up some serious magic and created a way to emulate CSS3 pseudo-class selectors alongside the... Read More
CSS typography is fun. Really. If you’re in to S&M
So I found this article over at Smashing Magazine dealing with CSS typography. It’s a nice write up of both current and upcoming features – depending on your browser of choice – that will allow you to do some text formatting that I remember doing with Aldus PageMaker. Good times. Nice to see that technology is progressing at a steady pace. Competent writer Inayaili de León does a fine job going through some common and some not-so-common features such as hyphenation,... Read More
