I am a huge fan of Google’s AppEngine. It makes coding small or large sites in Python/Django an absolute breeze. When combined with Google Apps it makes setting up a new scalable website easy and very cost effective. Hypr is a micro blogging engine built specifically to run on AppEngine…
Using a mailto: link on your site is an open invitation for spam bots to fill your inbox. Luckily it’s easy to avoid this with a small piece of javascript…
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Incredibly sad news, Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. Steve Jobs' genius gave the world some truly great innovations in technology and design. He is an inspiration to us all and will not be forgotten…
Since I have started using Toto to power this blog I have wanted a way to tweet my new posts automatically and couldn’t find a nice solution, until now…
Two weeks ago I finally downloaded iA Writer by Information Architects. It’s an app I have admired from a far for a long time. I was expecting it to be good but not this good…
A tiny jQuery plugin to help with your Media Query development. When I was getting to grips with media queries and which ones I should use for what devices I found it difficult to work out which media query I was currently looking at. I tried a few things such as setting a different background color for each mq. This worked up to a point, but it distracted with the styling I was doing. So I wrote a quick script to help…
Clearfix is a solution to prevent elements that contain floated elements from forgetting what height they are. It’s a common problem when developing a web page and clearfix solves it by using the :before and :after pseudo selectors to clear the inner float and give the parent element back it’s dignity…
As part of less-boilerplate I have written HelpLess. A full featured helper library to make your LESS coding even more of a breeze.
A few months ago I started developing with LESS. LESS by @cloudhead is an extension of CSS that adds dynamic behaviour to your stylesheet markup. LESS is completely backwards compatible with CSS, it adds variables, mixins, functions, nested declarations and more…
These days text renders pretty nicely in most browsers. However I think it could be even nicer. This is a little trick to add extra crispness to your web pages text…