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Unix Permissions Calculator Released 2 Mar 2009 | 10:55 pm
Over at Project Fondue we've just released a new tool - Permissions Calculator. If you always had trouble understanding how Unix file permissions worked then this is the tool for you. It allows you t...
Favicon Generator & Editor Released 10 Feb 2009 | 10:18 am
I've been working on several projects with a couple of former colleagues (Stuart Colville & Cyril Doussin) and we've just released the first of these - a favicon generator. The CSS Sprite Generator to...
Inbound Link Analyser - a tool for analysing links to your site 14 Oct 2008 | 09:23 pm
Eric Migralia, of Yahoo! YUI fame, has just released a tool, Inbound Link Analyser, for listing and analysing inbound links to any site. It's utilises YUI extensively and, I'm sure, provides a fantast...
Vote for my SXSW 2009 panel proposal 14 Aug 2008 | 11:26 pm
Stuart Coville, Nicole Sullivan, Stoyan Stefanov and myself have put forward a panel proposal for SXSW 2009 - Practical Website Perfomance. We'll be covering a number of frontend techniques aimed at i...
Source code for version 2 of CSS Sprite Generator 13 Jul 2008 | 06:41 pm
Stuart and I have just released the source code for the latest version of our CSS Sprite Generator. As mentioned in my previous post the code has undergone a major refactoring and support for Image Ma...
Version 2 of CSS Sprite Generator released 23 Jun 2008 | 08:42 pm
Stuart and I have just released a new version of our CSS Sprite Generator. We've given it quite a major overhaul and it now uses Image Magick to generate sprite images instead of GD. This produces muc...
Opera releases Dragonfly for Opera 9.5 beta 2 6 May 2008 | 09:46 pm
Opera has released Dragonfly, their Firebug like developer console, as part of the latest release Opera 9.5 beta 2. It looks pretty promising - at a quick glance I think it compares favourably with th...
Mobile Browser Concurrency Test 28 Apr 2008 | 10:52 pm
Cloud Four, specialists in mobile development, have set up a research project aimed at finding out more about the capabilities of mobile devices to determine the performance implications of building w...
Problems building MySQLdb on Mac OS X 10.4 (Power PC) 17 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Over the last couple of days I've been trying to build and install MySQLdb on my PowerPC based Mac Mini with very little success. I got the following message followed by a ton of type errors: I tried...
Automatic versioning of CSS, JavaScript and Images 7 Apr 2008 | 11:24 pm
See comments for important information about HTTP caching issues with URLs containing query string parameters. When including CSS and JavaScript resources in your pages you should version file paths ...
