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My OS X Lion Horror Story 14 Oct 2011 | 03:27 am
OS X Lion was released in July 2011 and includes a number of new upgrades. Some of these are very impressive, such as complex touch gestures for the trackpad. Others are more mundane, such as fullscre...
CSS Data URIs – Use Them In All Browsers Now! 11 Nov 2010 | 07:30 am
Data URIs are one of the best techniques in CSS, allowing developers to avoid referencing external images and instead embed them directly into a stylesheet. The main advantage of this approach is to s...
Huge Performance Improvements In Latest Translate This Button 22 Oct 2010 | 05:07 am
A few days ago I released a new version of the Translate This Button, a free JavaScript translation widget. Of the sites I tested, the translation operation now runs an average of 70% faster. This per...
Graceful Degradation With CSS3 18 Aug 2010 | 04:57 am
With IE9 in development and Opera 10.5 released, CSS3 is a few steps away from being supported by all modern browsers. But users may take a while to upgrade, and responsible developers will support le...
CSS Summit: The Good Parts 30 Jul 2010 | 04:33 am
Yesterday's CSS Summit featured some the best CSS minds presenting on cutting edge CSS issues. There was a ton of great information presented across the 8 sessions, but here's a wrap up of the single ...
5 Asset Management Tricks for Faster Websites 12 May 2010 | 05:04 am
When it comes to front-end performance, good asset management is just as important as good code. Simply put: downloading assets takes time. Computers and browsers now render pages and execute Javascr...
Great Examples of Drawing With CSS 31 Mar 2010 | 05:34 am
I’ve always been a fan of drawing page components with pure CSS rather than using image support. Although rendering the page with CSS can sometimes be a pain, the rewards of fewer HTTP requests & less...
5 Reasons To Buy CS5 (And Not Just Steal It) 26 Mar 2010 | 08:00 am
Adobe CS5 is coming out on April 12, and I can't wait. This new release comes packed with a ton of awesome new features, such as content-aware fill, painting, better edge detection and time-saving sh...
Announcing the TranslateThis Button for WordPress 26 Feb 2010 | 06:42 am
I just released a new WordPress plugin to leverage the TranslateThis Button, a Javascript translation widget that uses the Google Language API. This plugin provides an easy interface for customizing t...
These Icons Look Like Crap – Poopy Social Media Icons 17 Feb 2010 | 06:03 am
Social media often seems like a load of crap, so I’m releasing these Poopy Social Icons: 36 different icons in 3 crappy sizes: 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Feel free to use the Poopy Social Media Icons on ...
