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  • Internet Explorer – Web Developer Toolbar

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    In a world of FireFox and its beautiful extensions of web-development power, Internet Explorer has been a horrid browser to develop/debug your code. Microsoft has a fancy FireBug clone for the bane of every web developer…Internet Explorer! They call it the Web Developer Toolbar (although it isn’t much of a toolbar and more of a…

  • Book Review: Learning jQuery

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  • Plugin: Sexy Comments v1.4 Released!

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    [[innerindex]] Introduction This has been a long time coming and I am happy to announce the release of Sexy Comments v1.4! With this version comes a lot of changes…so be sure to read the installation section! Along with simple optimizations and general restructure, the following features are now available: Feature List Ajax comment preview (new…

  • Site Speed Analysis With YSlow

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    This is a nifty little tool to add to your web development toolkit! Yahoo has developed a nifty website speed analysis Firebug extension. Yep. Not Firefox…FireBug. (Which I guess makes it a Firefox extension with a dependancy…but whatever). The extension is YSlow which Yahoo! describes as: YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re…

  • WordCamp 2007: Day 1: Blogs vs. Journalism

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    Speakers: John C. Dvorak and Om Malik This discussion touches on the similarity and differences of blogging and journalism. The talk spread over a number of topics, touching on: journalism’s view on blogging; comment moderation; libel suits and how to avoid them; layouts and perception. Overall, a great session. Some interesting nuggets that the speakers…

  • WordCamp 2007: Day 1: Podcasting

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    Speaker: Dan Kuykendall of MightySeek.com. Dan. Podcaster. Developer. The session? Primarily an introduction to the excellent podPress WordPress plugin that started as a simple podcasting-geared tool and has morphed into a full featured media management plugin. As I haven’t dived into the wonderful world of podcasting, the plugin looks pretty sexy. The statistics provided by…

  • Off To WordCamp

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    I’m heading off to WordCamp – a WordPress blogging conference – with Zach tomorrow (Friday). This will be my first WordCamp conference as well as my first time flying with JetBlue so I’m pretty excited all the way around. Once in San Francisco, we’ll be hooking up with Casey, a veteran camper who has conveniently…

  • jQuery 1.1.3: Speed Improvements and Bug Fixes

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    After a long wait, jQuery 1.1.3 has been released! (Download it at the jQuery site) When I first adopted jQuery a year ago, the library boasted both faster speeds and smaller size than any other JavaScript Ajax/DOM tool. With the release of jQuery’s version 1.1.2, a number of jQuery’s operations became very slow and inefficiencient,…

  • Safari 3 Beta – Finally on Windows

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    This year’s WWDC has brought a few interesting things: a new Apple.com website layout, the launch of the iPhone, the announcement of the near final Mac OSX Leopard, some updated Mac hardware, and last but not least (and the most surprising), Safari 3! This time around, Mac is attempting to be a competitor for IE…

  • Coda – Finally A Mac Development Tool I Like

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    I’ve had a Mac for quite a while now (well…I have two and hopefully a third very soon) and sadly development tools on the Mac have been pretty lame. I began development in a Windows environment a number of years ago and grew very happy (and spoiled) with EditPlus. The features that I found myself…

  • Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation

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    [[innerindex]] Introduction When designing web applications, icons and images are used to enhance the user experience, give visual cues, and simply look sexy. For complex web apps, the quantity and resulting latency of icons and images used can greatly impact page load times…and developers, in most cases, generally try to reduce page load time with…

  • Office Pranks Get International Press

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    Shortly after the massive prank fest I had on a few of my co-workers, World Entertainment News Network contacted me for high-resolution images and further information. I, of course, responded with a few tid-bits and a link back to my blog so they could get the full story on the matter. A week later images…

  • Google 411

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    So, Google Labs has another sweet service that’s pretty sexy…Google 411. What is it? Well…as Techcrunch explains it: Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today – a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and…

  • WordPress Plugin: Sexy Comments

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    Unhappy with my theme’s comment display, I recently re-coded a sexier comment display as a plugin so others can sexify their comments as well. Download the plugin. Features Forum-thread-like comment layout: User information to the left, comment to the right. Author post highlighting Altered Trackback/Pingback Display Formating Avatars Either display/hide avatars Select your avatar service…

  • Office Pranks

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    I’m a jerk. My manager and three of my co-workers went off to the SungardHE Summit conference in Las Vegas last week…I was left to fend for myself in the office. Nope. I didn’t go. But I didn’t sit idle! I wrangled up a crew (Al, Casey, Cliff, Tim, Laurianne, and a couple others) and…