PHP Simple Tweet
SimpleTweet is a class to load recent tweets for a particular twitter user. It uses the search API (which requires no authentication) to load the tweets and store them in a simple local filesystem...
View ArticleCoda Plugin: HTML Word Counter
So Coda 1.6 has been released. The major change appears to be the addition of a plugin system for adding functionality. Basically this allows developers to write small scripts that manipulate text from...
View ArticleRetrofitting Responsive CSS
I’ve been working recently on getting together a responsive design solution for clients that already have a website and just want to add responsive in order to be accessible on mobiles and tablets....
View ArticleEdgy Theme – Sublime Text 2
What is it? So, I’ve actually been using this for aaages. But the other day, someone looked at my laptop and noticed my editor and asked what it was. I said, oh it’s Sublime – to which i received a...
View ArticleMacaw: Could this be the front end web design tool we’ve all been waiting for?
If you’re a web designer or developer and you haven’t been living under a rock this week (or on tight deadlines and trying to stay off twitter).. then you’ve probably already seen the screencast...
View ArticleGraceful Degradation vs Progressive Enhancement
Graceful Degradation vs Progressive Enhancement Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are two often confused concepts. Many people (developers, designers, other web professionals and not so...
View Article[Video] Gary Vaynerchuck talks entrepreneurship at USC
Every now and then a great keynote speech makes it onto Youtube (think Steve Jobs at Stanford 2005) – this talk by Gary Vee at USC is one of those. As always, Gary speaks straight and true and tells...
View ArticleShould Designers Code?
Code and Design Are two vastly different disciplines. So I see a lot of people talking about how designers should code. How it makes sense for frontend code to be produced in the design phase. Now, to...
View ArticleStumbbble : Browse Designer Portfolios
Like Stumbleupon for designer portfolios. This site is genius, uses Dribbble to retrieve designer’s portfolio links and then loads them up. Try Stumbbble out now.
View ArticleCreating htpasswd / htaccess restricted areas
I have to do this all the time. You’ve created a staging site for a client, you want to show it to them on a live server – but you don’t want it to get indexed by search engines, nor do you want people...
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