10 days ago
philgyford : Alex is blogging, too: Tumblr Friendfeed Theme Release - A theme for Tumblr that incorporates your Friendfeed stuff into a sidebar.
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philgyford : Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs - Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
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Cameron Moll : Flickr: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Flickr Developer Blog: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site. Worth reading, as I've said before that the Flickr Mobile is one of the more impressive web experiences I've seen on iPhone.
philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog " Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Great practical advice for building a website for iPhones. (via Infovore)
Rod Begbie : Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Some great thoughts on mobile website development from Flickr, whose iPhone-friendly site is a thing of beauty. #
Eric Meyer : Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - These lessons don't apply solely to mobile sites, as it happens.
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philgyford : Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN) - Nice looking Subversion client for the Mac (er, like it says). (via TUAW)
Cameron Moll : Versions, the Subversion client for Mac, is now officially 1.0 - Versions, the Subversion client for Mac, is now officially 1.0. I've been using this nearly since beta (about 5 months now), and I can verify it helps SVN noobs like me not hate SVN, even enjoy it.
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philgyford : Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software - Self-hosted aggregation of things you do elsewhere on the web. Not convinced about the design of the example. You have to sign up to find out more. Oh well.
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philgyford : Reset Password for Movable Type User via MySQL - Adventures in Movable Type - I predict this will be very, very handy.
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Simon Willison : Conditional classnames - Conditional classnames. Yahoo!’s internal coding standards still recommend CSS hacks over conditional comments because a separate stylesheet for IE imposes an additional HTTP request. Paul Hammond points out that you can use conditional comments to wr
Eric Meyer : Conditional classnames - True 'nough.
deusx : paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - "If you use this HTML: <!--[if IE ]> <body class="ie"> <![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]>--> <body> <!--<![endif]--> with CSS that looks something like: div.foo { color: inherit; } .ie div.foo {
philgyford : Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it's hard to believe no one's thought of it before. Smashing.
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2 month ago
Simon Willison : Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it - Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. Aral Balkan describes a number of critical issues with App Engine. If you’re considering building something serious on it you need to read this article; I’ve run in to several of the
philgyford : Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. at Aral Balkan - My word, it sounds quite useless really. (via Simon Willison)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Related Entries in Movable Type | Devlounge - How to do a "related entries" block on individual entry archives. Requires that you use tags.
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3 month ago
philgyford : BuddyPress " About BuddyPress - "The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network." (via Oblomovka)
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4 month ago
philgyford : Dotcode's bookmarks tagged with "scrolling" on del.icio.us - A handy collection. For some reason (some) clients and (some) designers are the only people in the world who can't work scrollbars.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Zenphoto - PHP/MySQL photo gallery. Front-end looks gorgeous. But a couple of silly awkward problems made it tricky to install and the admin interface was a bit baffling. No multiple users.
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4 month ago
philgyford : PhpAlbum | PHP Photo Album - Gallery - Photo album that doesn't use a conventional database, supports multiple users I think. Demo looks horribly like phpBB. Tried installing and just got a blank page. Gave up.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Gallery | Your photos on your website - Very full-featured, a bit complicated, but very polished PHP/MySQL photo gallery. Installed easily, multiple users, nice themes. Win.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Tag Based PHP Photo Album | JuxtaPhoto - Looks nice, but haven't tried it. Single user only.
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Features are a one-way street - once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash [via]
philgyford : Features are a one-way street - (37signals) - Yes. (via Daring Fireball)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley's Blog - A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)
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5 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Jon Hicks on Expression Engine vs. Textpattern - “The upshot is, that for a lot of client sites, Expression Engine is wonderful (if you can put up with the admin side) — especially sites that need members, forums and all that jazz. The thing is, if a site doesn’t need those thi
philgyford : Expression Engine vs Textpattern / journal / hicksdesign - Thoughtful comparison of both CMSs. (via Daring Fireball)
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Simon Willison : James Bennett: Why HTML - James Bennett: Why HTML. Finally, somewhere to point people when they ask why I avoid XHTML that’s a bit more up to date than Hixie’s rant from 2002.
philgyford : Why HTML - More recent arguments for why to use HTML rather than XHTML. (via Simon Willison)
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6 month ago
Simon Willison : Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts. Brian Suda’s Google Charts tutorial on 24 ways has proved invaluable for figuring out how to handle grid lines and axis labels, both of which are pretty unintuitive (and not hugely helped by the official do
philgyford : 24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)
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6 month ago
philgyford : Widgetfinger - Simple Content Management for Simple Websites - Looks like an awesome thing that would be great for a huge percentage of small business websites. I was a thrown by being asked for 'Company Name' first off when creating an account though. (via Infovore)
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6 month ago
philgyford : Lefora Free Forum Hosting - Hosted forums. New, so I assume it'll improve; the forums themselves are less than beautiful at the moment.
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7 month ago
factoryjoe : Timeframe - Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: calendar, javascript
philgyford : Timeframe - Very nice calendar selector widget. (via Daring Fireball)
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philgyford : Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash - If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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8 month ago
Cameron Moll : Accessible Data Visualization - ALA: Accessible Data Visualization. Great tutorial by Wilson Miner on creating charts and sparklines that are not only aesthetic but accessible too.
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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