Bury the search bar!
July 4, 2007
Have you ever tried to perform a search using Digg
’s search field? Did you find the results to be irrelevant? Well, you’re not the only one.
Online JPG to HTML Converter
July 4, 2007
Probably how the “Crazy guy can draw using HTML!!!”
A table is created which is filled with large numbers of 1×1 cells. Each cell has a background colour of the corresponding pixel in the image. That’s all it is; just a massive grid of coloured table cells. View the source to see the details.
Make Your Own Firefox Extensions
July 4, 2007
Most Firefox users have clicked through Tools | Add-ons | Get Extensions (or visited addons.mozilla.org) to download some from the main repository. But why not make your own? Fortunately, it’s not hard.
Geek To Live: Separate your email from your to-do’s
July 4, 2007
Let’s face it: email is not a task manager. One of the biggest leaps I made towards keeping on top of all my pending to-do’s was making a clean, mindful break between email and tasks.
The Power of Google Gears (Part 1)
July 4, 2007
Web application development is the perfect 95 percent solution. It’s very easy to develop a simple HTML frontend to something like PHP or Rails, to deliver data to and from a MySQL database. You can even give it a more desktop feel by using Ajax tools. But that last five percent, the ability for desktop applications to work offline, was missing
Zend Framework 1.0.0 Production Released
July 4, 2007
Zend Framework is now the best class library available for PHP 5 web application development. It is an open source project that provides solutions to solve frequent needs of web application developers, including the following areas: Powerful MVC, Database access solutions, Advanced I18N support, Robust authentication/authorization, and many more.
Top 10 Things Digg Needs (Or Needs to Improve On)
July 4, 2007
One item conspicuously absent….
jQuery 1.1.3: 800%+ Faster, still 20KB
July 4, 2007
After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure.
Firebug for iPhone
July 4, 2007
“Trying to debug web pages on my iPhone transported me back to a dark place I hadn’t been in some time: the Land of alert() Debugging! Within the first few hours I had sent my phone into its first infinite modal loop, from which the only escape was to power down the phone and reboot it.”
A Better ‘Digg This’ Button
July 4, 2007
This is an interactive digg counter/button that gives visitors a visual view of your story being dugg in real-time. In this example, Mario hits a coin box every time your story is dugg. The widget can be customized with several other presets, or you can make your own style easily. It’s a fun way to attract more diggs to your story!
