CodeIgniter 2.0 – Now with more Awesome CodeIgniter drops support for PHP 4 and now requires PHP 5.1.6 or greater. An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum Anti-racist essayist and activist Tim Wise lays a verbal smackdown on the Republican’s right-most wing while pointing out that [...]
[12 Nov 2010]
Running scripts in WebKit WebKit nightly builds now support the HTML5 async and defer script attributes. This makes it easier for web pages to load faster by downloading JavaScript without blocking other elements of the page. How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users Oh snap! Chrome comes out ahead in a recent [...]
[22 Sep 2010]
Advanced WordPress wp-config.php Tweaks More tips on bending WordPress to your will via the wp-config.php file. There Will Be Blood But the West has a long tradition of intervening in Africa as if the continent had no history, or as if its history was irrelevant. Sudan native Jamal Mahjoub discusses the current state of Sudanese [...]
[5 Oct 2009]
Kongoni Nietzsche released This marks the first official and stable release of the Kongoni GNU/Linux distribution after several development releases. Kongoni is a South African Linux distribution designed to be used in an African technical context. For example, the development team released the source code instead of binaries to save on file size for low-bandwidth [...]
[13 Jul 2009]
Firefox 3.5 has been released 3.5 includes support for the HTML5 audio and video elements, and local / offline storage, a faster JavaScript engine, refinements to clearing private data, and a new private browsing mode. Truthy and Falsy: When All is Not Equal in JavaScript A refresher on data types in JavaScript and when ‘true’ [...]
[30 Jun 2009]
Introduction to RDFa An attribute framework for including metadata in HTML tags Open Melody Six Apart announces a developer release of Melody, an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. USB Thumb Drives and Your Open Source App Arsenal Ideas for [...]
[23 Jun 2009]
Remove your unused CSS selectors with Dust-Me Selectors Find tutorials and inspiration at WebDesignerWall Developing web apps for the iPhone? Check out “An Introduction to iUI” Yes, there’s a reason not to trust electronic voting machines And just Why are there so many single Americans? Mashable rounded up 120+ Web Development Resources Automatically post your [...]
[30 Jul 2007]
Ten Copyright Myths That Can Hurt You presents some issues every freelancer should be aware of. I updated the chart on my recent Review: The online mind map smackdown piece to reflect new features in Comapping.com Google tells you how to get the most out of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (Also see Part I & [...]
[27 Jul 2007]
Mashable offers 50 WordPress plugins for administering your WP blog. Learn how to Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python How to get the most out of YSlow Rainbow9 is an open source web-based IDE for HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Maybe this is the hosted answer to Workspace? Upload images to Flickr from PhotoShop with FlickrShop [...]
[26 Jul 2007]