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Building a Custom Icon Font 17 Jan 2013 | 10:08 pm
I recently wrote a tutorial on building a custom web font on the Sprout Social Engineer Blog: http://engineering.sproutsocial.com/2013/01/custom-symbol-font-for-the-web/
Create a Twitter Share Button with a Vertical Count 27 Nov 2012 | 11:02 pm
I was recently working on a project that required a Twitter Share button with a vertical “share count” and noticed that Twitter no longer lists this button as an option on their Twitter Buttons Page. ...
Simple HiDPI / Retina test for Modernizr 22 Oct 2012 | 09:18 am
Recently, I needed HiDPI / Retina detection via JavaScript so I decided to write a basic Modernizr.js test that simply uses JavaScript device pixel ratio media queries and tests whether or not the use...
H5Slide: HTML5 / jQuery Slideshow 13 Aug 2010 | 07:11 am
This project was re-written in mid 2012, scroll down to the bottom for more details A few weeks ago, I wrote a jQuery slideshow app for a personal project. The slideshow ended up being more useful tha...
Getting Started with HTML5 Local Databases 17 May 2010 | 02:00 pm
Starting with Safari 4, iPhone/iPad OS3, Chrome 5, and Opera 10.5 (Desktop), HTML5 Local Databases are now supported. I’ve been reading about local databases for quite some time and decided to do a wr...
Practical CSS3 for Web Designers 26 Apr 2010 | 09:31 am
Designers have been using basic CSS3 techniques to enhance their designs for several years now, but cross-browser incompatibilities and lack of practical examples have slowed its progression in the ma...
Set a Dynamic Width / Height on Fancybox 10 Mar 2010 | 03:55 pm
Fancybox is a powerful, lightweight jQuery based lightbox script that offers developers an impressive variety of content display options. I’ve used this script many times in the past (including my por...
jQuery XML Parser with Sorting and Filtering 11 Jan 2010 | 07:45 pm
In early 2009, I experimented with XML based iPhone / Safari Mobile web app which used jQuery to parse and traverse multiple levels of nodes in an XML file and display the data. While that project nev...
Practical tips for securing your WordPress blog 4 Dec 2009 | 03:27 pm
Wordpress is one of the the most commonly used and talked about blogging platforms on the internet. Because of this, it has gained the interest of bloggers, hackers and corporate marketing douche bags...
Mastering the Flickr API with PHP and cURL 28 Nov 2009 | 05:48 pm
The Flickr API is a very powerful and easy to use way to put photos on your website without having to worry about bandwidth or server performance issues. This tutorial will cover how to make an API ca...
