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scraplab — The Scruffying of Print
by karlcow
So you design things with high tolerances and gentle failure modes which still look OK when everything isn’t quite as expected.
This is something that print is going to have to get used to. Slightly messier, with a few more bad line breaks and unbalanced columns.
07 November 2009
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04 November 2009
Custom fonts in your website
by jerome
The Typotheque Web Font Service enables you to use custom fonts in your website using the @font-face rule in CSS. Just add a line of code to your page and get it working in minutes. Simple, fast and standard-compliant.
29 October 2009
memcache-top - Project Hosting on Google Code
by Xavier Lacot
A command line tool for grabbing real time stats from memcached.
26 October 2009
Creating Offline Web Applicat...
by oseres
Creating Offline Web Applications With Dojo Offline
by Brad Neuberg (SitePen), September 23rd, 2007
This tutorial steps you through creating offline web applications using Dojo Offline.
What is Dojo Offline?
Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy to create sophisticated, offline web applications. It sits on top of Google Gears, a plugin from Google that helps extend web browsers with new functionality. Dojo Offline makes working with Google Gears easier; extends it with important functionality; creates a higher-level API than Google Gears provides; and exposes developer productivity features. In particular, Dojo Offline provides the following functionality:
An offline widget that you can easily embed in your web page with just a few lines of code, automatically providing the user with network feedback, sync messages, offline instructions, and more
A sync framework to help you store actions done while offline and sync them with a server once back on the network
Automatic network and application-availability detection to determine when your application is on- or off-line so that you can take appropriate action
A slurp() method that automatically scans the page and figures out all the resources that you need offline, including images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.; this is much easier than having to manually maintain which resources should be available offline, especially during development.
Dojo Storage, an easy to use hashtable abstraction for storing offline data for when you don't need the heaviness of Google Gear's SQL abstraction; under the covers Dojo Storage saves its data into Google Gears
Dojo SQL, an easy to use SQL layer that executes SQL statements and returns them as ordinary JavaScript objects
New ENCRYPT() and DECRYPT() SQL keywords that you can mix in when using Dojo SQL, to get transparent cryptography for columns of data. Cryptography is done on a Google Worker Pool thread, so that the browser UI is responsive.
Integration with the rest of Dojo, such as the Dojo Event system
Free est parvenu à délivrer grâce aux technologies DSL un débit maximum de 174 Mbit/s en réception et 18 Mbit/s en émission
by rvuong
Les équipements DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexeur) de Free sont d’ores et déjà compatibles avec la technologie "F-ADSL", sans aucune modification. Cette technologie permet d’atteindre ces débits sans aucun nouvel investissement réseau. Les Freebox actuelles ne permettent pas l'accès à ces débits. Free n'envisage pas de lancement commercial pour le moment.
Extra Cheese
by karlcow
Each line gets highlighted based on the complexity of the function: green for low, yellow for medium, red for high.
25 October 2009
CSS Tools: Reset CSS
by mozkart
& 1 other
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The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others.
The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn't any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don't particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. It should be tweaked, edited, extended, and otherwise tuned to match your specific reset baseline. Fill in your preferred colors for the page, links, and so on.
In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness.
23 October 2009
Mary e Carol Higgins Clark in libreria con Il biglietto vincente
by ebyweb
Nel nuovo romanzo 'Il biglietto vincente' (Dashing through the Snow), pubblicato in Italia da Sperling & Kupfer, Mary e Carol Higgins Clark mescolano ad arte la suspense con una storia ricca di calore e di personaggi che restano nel cuore, nell'affascinante scenario di un New Hampshire ammantato di neve.
09 October 2009
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01 October 2009
The Duct Tape Programmer - Joel on Software
by ERSWeb
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Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is careening down the hill at a mile a minute. This will happen while other programmers are still at the starting line arguing over whether to use titanium or some kind of space-age composite material that Boeing is using in the 787 Dreamliner.
30 September 2009
Tom Taylor : Projects : Clarke
by karlcow
Clarke is a small OS X application for updating your Fire Eagle location quietly, in the background. On Leopard (10.5) it uses Skyhook's API to triangulate your position from nearby wireless access points. On Snow Leopard (10.6) it uses Core Location. It's free, and the source code is available on Github.
23 September 2009
Firtefox : 10 millions d'internautes ont cliqué sur le line conduisant à la mise à jour de Flash
by srcmax
(via)
Les dernières versions de Firefox détectent celles obsolètes du lecteur d'Adobe. Dix millions d’internautes auraient déjà cliqué sur le lien conduisant à la mise à jour du plug-in.
21 September 2009
Cocoa with Love: WhereIsMyMac, a Snow Leopard CoreLocation project
by karlcow
In Snow Leopard, you can ask for the computer's location. Without a GPS, how accurate could that be? The answer in my case is: very accurate. In this post, I'll show you how to write a CoreLocation app for the Mac that shows the current location in Google Maps, so you can see exactly where your computer thinks it is.
WireTap Studio | Ambrosia Software, Inc.
by sbrothier
& 3 others
(via)
Using WireTap Studio, you can record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or record audio input from any microphone, line-in, or audio input hardware.
If you can hear it, WireTap Studio can record it.
RDFa Distiller
by parmentierf
pyRdfa is a distiller that generates the RDF triples from an (X)HTML RDFa or SVG Tiny 1.2 file in various RDF serialization formats. It can either be used directly from a command line or via a CGI service.
18 September 2009
How to Design a Tumblelog Theme for WordPress | Digging into WordPress
by mozkart
Tumblelogs are a great way to streamline mixed-media blogging for different types of content. Commonly used tumblelog topics include “Links”, “Photos”, “Quotes”, “Dialogue”, and “Video”. A good tumblelog presents each these different topics with its own unique format while retaining an overall sense of cohesion throughout the entire design.
A good example of this involves the clever way in which titles for “Link-category” posts link to the showcase URL rather than to the post itself. Other post types may be styled with different colors, meta information, and anything else that seems appropriate. Bottom line is that a well-designed tumblelog makes it easy and fun to showcase and organize a wide variety of different content types all in one place.
Although I prefer to tumble via my Tumblr account, I have always wanted to integrate the process into WordPress by designing a tumblelog-style theme. So in this brisk tutorial, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
The goals of our Tumble Theme are as follows:
Create categories for each content type: Links, Photos, Quotes, Dialogue, and Video
Create unique category, single, and index views for each content type
Make post title links for the Link category point to the showcase URL instead of the post itself
Also provide a link to the post itself (i.e., single view) for posts in the Link category
Shoebot | Main / HomePage browse
by karlcow
Shoebot is a pure Python graphics robot: It takes a Python script as input, which describes a drawing process, and outputs a graphic in a common open standard format (SVG, PDF, PostScript, or PNG). It has a simple text editor GUI, and scripts can describe their own GUIs for controlling variables interactively. Being pure Python, it can also be used as a Python module, a plugin for Python-scriptable tools such as Inkscape, and run from the command line. It was directly inspired by DrawBot and Shoes. Thus, "Shoebot."
15 September 2009
scratch.py -- hyper-fast mini-webapp production, in Python
by karlcow
You should need to know a little about using the command line, and perhaps a little Python, before using this.
14 September 2009
argparse - Project Hosting on Google Code
by karlcow
The argparse module provides an easy, declarative interface for creating command line tools
