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Exploring Mobile Web Apps, day 1
Tonight I cracked open jQTouch and started poking around. First let me say that this thing is incredible. It’s really impressive. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s only jQuery and CSS3, but it’s really impressive. From Jonathan Stark’s talk I knew he had a text…
SXSW – Great Conference
So, we just got back from SXSW, and I must say I’m a little distracted today thinking about all the cool people we met and neat things I learned. I just want to do a mind dump real quick about some of the stuff I’m excited about. My web development abilities For the past year, I’ve sort o…
Headed to SXSW
We’ve been delayed twice, and are now 2 hours behind, but we’re still on our way. Apparently there’s bad weather in Atlanta, where our flight connects. ::later that day:: Our connecting flight to Austin was canceled. Which sucks, but we’ve been put on a later flight. I hop…
Adding PHP powered color control variables.
I’m not sure if this was a waste of time, but I’m not in love with the colors I’m using on my site. When I built the theme, I kind of knew I’d get tired of the colors, so I made an index at the top showing what colors were used, it looks like this: /* Colors Used:===================…
First Screencast Up – WordPress Snippets
I posted this video to http://screenr.com today, you can see it at http://screenr.com/J2h. This site is an incredible resource, which I plan on using a few more times in the next week or so. Below is the video. Watch in full screen to see the code more clearly. Other Posts in this SeriesFirst Screencas…
Why I don’t get my hopes up about CSS3
If today I could use CSS3 on every site I built, it would be a dream come true, but the fact of the matter is that I can’t. That is to say, that I can’t rely on it. The reason is due to browser support and market share. On this site, almost everything is CSS and CSS2. I don’t use CSS3 commonl…
Updated Textmate WordPress Bundle
Well, I’ve finally updated the WordPress bundle from the previous release. In this bundle I’ve included some fairly neat snippets. Almost all of them are wrapped in the brackets. Below is a screenshot of what snippets the bundle contains. Why are these snippets helpful? Textmate sni…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 2
In this tutorial, I cover how to use custom fields to embed an mp3 into your website (without installing a plugin).
Plugin Released: “Category Expander”
Tim and I finished a plugin today. It is the first plugin that we are officially releasing to the public. The plugin title is “Category Expander”. You can see it in action on the sidebar. Through the settings menu in the WordPress dashboard, you can choose which categories you’d l…
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