Just a little script to create a PNG image of a simple linear gradient using PHP. You could adapt this to make it better in many ways! Insipired (by which I mean 99% ripped of!) by http://www.cutcodedown.com/ No demo to avoid load on the server, but it just makes a simple gradient. I use it [...]
I’ve just written a tutorial complete with demos showing how to use the CSS3 transition, transform and animation properties – find it here: CSS3 Transition, Transform and Animation Tutorial. Hopefully it’s useful/interesting – any comments/improvements let me know! It’s still a work in progress, so I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks.
Forms in HTML have typically been pretty boring – input boxes and buttons with all validation performed by javascript. With the new HTML5 Forms module things have become a little more useful. As of May 2010, only bleeding edge browsers support this, Webkit Nightlies, Chrome Dev Channel builds and Opera. The HTML5 forms module started [...]
Just a quick video made of the ChromeOS build found on the chromium.org server. It’s run on Ubuntu in a virtual machine running on Snow Leopard. Used Quicktime X to record it, which turned out pretty well I think! Not much in there yet, but good to see that parts of it are on the [...]
Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: The State of Solid State Hard Drives – Fugitive gives the game away with Facebook updates – Tesco boss raps school standards – Help us nail spammers – Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room – Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really – Tim Berners-Lee’s One Regret Regarding [...]
Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room – Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really – Tim Berners-Lee’s One Regret Regarding the Web – New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob? – Lightly Edit Images Easily With Acorn [Mac only] – Introducing Google Building Maker – Small But Rapidly [...]
Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: ‘New’ Jackson song penned in 1983 Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale A Lack Of Common Scents STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans Super Mario cupcakes
As you are surely aware, Microsoft ripped off Helvetica to create the Arial font. It’s not as nice, and doesn’t look nice on screen at all. The image below shows some of the differences. As you can see, the ends of each letter aren’t lined up properly, they are all at weird angles. Though Helvetica [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but every now and then I make a quick change to a PHP script, don’t bother checking it, then a few hours/days/months later either realise that I missed a vital semicolon, or mismatched a bracket. This started to get on my nerves, as now this has happened a couple of times [...]
Sure this has been done before, but I had a brainwave today – why not use Twitter as an error log for web apps? I already have error handling on my functions, so surely this shouldn’t be a difficult addition… turns out it’s not. First, you’ll need a twitter account. I’d recommend setting one up, [...]