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- Where I am: Hiding somewhere allowing this place to collect dust.
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links for 2006-01-19
January 19th, 2006-
The owner of the Gucci handbag plunked it down at the Fairway cash register, next to three expensive cheeses, a large filet mignon, two packages of Cocoa Puffs Milk ‘n Cereal Bars and an eight-pack of apple juice boxes, and impatiently awaited her tally.
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Due to popular demand, here it is, a step-by-step tutorial on how to achieve an aqua effect on a circle. Fire up your Illustrator CS (or 10) and get ready.
links for 2006-01-18
January 18th, 2006-
It’s not enough to write good markup, or avoid using tables. That was the first step. That was front-end architecture 101. Now it’s time to focus on DOM Scripting, AJAX, Accessibility, and the next level.
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a growing collection of fine screendesigns
(tags: design webdesign inspiration)
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get_magic_quotes_gpc — Gets the current configuration setting of magic quotes gpc
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The 80/20 Rule means that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many(80 percent) are trivial.
(tags: business ideas management productivity gtd mind)
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[O]urs is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with at best vague goals.
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gtd-php is an open source, web-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system.
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study conducted by the University of Minnesota found that the amount and length of meetings correlate with “negative effects” (burnout, anxiety, and depression) on its participants.
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Add your products, accept credit card payments, track and respond to orders, all without needing a geek in the family.
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Liquid is a template engine for Ruby that also works as a Rails plugin.
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In the past few years, developers could choose between two approaches when building a web application. The first approach was to create a screen-based system with very rich interactions using a sophisticated, powerful technology such as Java or Flash.
links for 2006-01-17
January 17th, 2006-
Insight Venture Partners held a software developers forum in Boston. Several interesting trends emerged from a survey of the attendees.
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He stressed that you often only get one chance with the early adopters, so if you blow it you may not have another shot.
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bookmarks and links from labnotes.
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A Very Spatial Podcast is your weekly source for information on Geography and geospatial technologies.
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One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting.
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Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second.
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web development quick lookup
links for 2006-01-16
January 16th, 2006-
In 1957, German theoretical physicist Burkhard Heim publicly outlined a new idea for spacecraft propulsion.
(tags: science physics space hyperdrive)
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Using behavior.js to locate all elements with a class of “dropshadow” and add in the wrapper divs with some simple JavaScript. The rest gets handled by the CSS supplied in the ALA article.
(tags: css javascript behaviour.js webdesign)
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MIME content-types supported by most web servers, identified with file extensions.
links for 2006-01-15
January 15th, 2006links for 2006-01-14
January 14th, 2006-
So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can’t find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial?
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USA ePay’s gateway provides the safest and quickest way to processing your business’ credit card transactions world- wide. We supply your business a wide array of tools and our 24-hour technical support will be there whenever you need it.
(tags: api php development webdevelopment webdev business credit)
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Chandler 0.6 delivers an experimentally usable calendar for individuals and small workgroups. It is a test release for collecting feedback based on real usage.
(tags: calendar software pim opensource collaboration tools chandler free)
links for 2006-01-13
January 13th, 2006-
“If you’re using public APIs, rely on the functionality they give you, but always have a backup plan.”
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“Recently I was asked to provide input into a presentation. The question was asked, if you were going to provide some quick basic guidelines for designing rich applications what would they be.”
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Most people who’ve attempted to recreate a sophisticated design in HTML email have run into a wall when using CSS, either in the form of inexplicable mangling by email clients or a pronouncement by an email administrator stating that CSS is “against t
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This article is a sequel to one that appeared on A List Apart shortly after the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was enacted.
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“its like a webpage version of wevah” -R. Irrgang
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Microsoft included a simple preprocessor in JScript for conditional compilation. These statements are typically used within comments since this is an extension to typical Javascript/ECMAScript syntax.
links for 2006-01-12
January 12th, 2006-
The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages.
links for 2006-01-11
January 11th, 2006-
“If anyone out there knows of a good service that provides feeds for job postings, please comment.” he he he
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“Designing for a Web-based environment enacts a set of unique issues that need to be considered before implementation can be successful.”
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“This color schemer is a simple tool to help you experiment with various color schemes for your next web or print project.”
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JS solution for min/max-width and min/max-height in IE/PC.
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JS solution for position:fixed in IE/PC
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The goal of this project is to simplify the process of setting up a Subversion repository on a Windows-based computer.
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Web Design Patterns
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In software engineering, a design pattern is a general solution to a common problem in software design.
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The X-Ray Firefox Extension let’s you see the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.
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“Never add, only subtract”
links for 2006-01-10
January 10th, 2006-
BitPass enables online commerce by making it easy and safe to buy and sell digital content and services, at any price point. BitPass does this by providing bundled authentication, payment processing, and access control with customer service and promotiona
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Still not a fan, but at least I can be informed.
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I obviously don’t get pitched for investment by other entrepreneurs, so I don’t know what lies are being told, but I’ll tack on some of my own “at face value” comments to the top ten.
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I’ve seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release.
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For instance, do landing pages with email signups really annoy you, and would you rather not hear about a product until it is ready to launch?
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One of the most important characteristics of a user-centered web application is the target audience - who the application speaks to and who it serves.
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So I was recently playing around with a couple of navigation treatments that I’ve seen - Simplebits’ MiniTabs and SlayerOffice’s Focus Slide. And I came up with a navigation “mash-up” of the two. I’m calling it the Mini-Slide Navigation.
(tags: css html webdesign Javascript web)
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design and photoshop tutorials
links for 2006-01-09
January 9th, 2006links for 2006-01-08
January 8th, 2006-
The concepts of regular expressions are extremely simple and powerful. . . it is their application that takes some work.
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MAKE magazine forums (uses Lussumo Vanilla 0.9.3 beta)
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As most of my readers know, social software is enablement of groups of people to collaborate using computer mediation. It’s a surprisingly sophisticated field that’s been around for almost 40 years now.
links for 2006-01-07
January 7th, 2006-
One of our objectives for 2006 is to help push the boundaries of web-application design and development. That said, we’re starting a series of blogposts and articles about building better web apps.
links for 2006-01-06
January 6th, 2006-
In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes
(tags: blogs business entrepreneur entrepreneurship)
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Acoustic / Unplugged Cover Songs in mp3