Schema-less data in MySQL
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data via Bret Taylor.
Font Custom
This small ruby program takes a folder full of SVG files and creates an icon font for use on the web. Neat!
Understanding Class.js
If you do any serious JavaScript development you’ve probably run across John Resig’s “Simple JavaScript Inheritance” article detailing Class.js, a small library for simulating a classical inheritance in JavaScript. It’s an elegant bit of code, powerful but small. When I was first learning JavaScript deeply, I pored over this article and the code, line by [...]
Writing for node and the browser
This is a clever little construction makes for easy sharing of JavaScript between NodeJS and the browser..
The tyranny of curly braces continues
CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability.
Adding Zend Search Lucene to a Silex project
Recently I added a search feature to Archie’s Recipes using Zend Search Lucene. The site is semi-static, relying upon the PHP micro-framework Silex to format static HTML files with layout templates (using Twig), provide a simple email contact form, and add a few simple navigational features (discussed here previously). Zend Search Lucene natively supports indexing [...]
I’ll lorem your ipsum
BLOKK font gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum. The new and better wireframing font.
Making Image Filters with Canvas
Neat-o-burrito.
Profile Silex applications
Debugging Silex applications just got fun. via Fabien Potencier. He also has a skeleton app for Silex on GitHub which is a super handy thing. If you’re writing new PHP apps and not using Symfony frameworks, you need to reconsider. Unless your one of those “I don’t need a framework” people.
Orientation media query challenges in Android browsers
When the software keyboard is displayed in Chrome for Android or the stock Android Browser[1] the browser window is resized, which triggers a window.resize event and a window.orientationchange event in JavaScript as well as possibly causing CSS media queries to be reapplied. In iOS, the software keyboard is overlaid over the browser window, so this [...]