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Text-Overflow Ellipsis CSS Support in Firefox 7

This is huge… Firefox 7 adds support for text-overflow: ellipsis Something so simple, yet huge. This has been missing for ages. Read more on the Mozilla Developer Network

Oct 2nd

Bank Simple Demo Video

Bank Simple’s demo of its web app kinda rocks. Elegant UI. Natural search. Smart tools. Good info aggregation. Simple to understand. Looking forward to using it. Check it out here: http://ow.ly/6BiaE

Sep 22nd

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PHP 5.4 Traits

PHP 5.4 adds traits - a means of mixing in behaviors from multiple sources. Think multiple inheritance with some twists to make it manageable. Check out this example http://code.atavisticendeavor.com/using-traits-in-php-54 Or this post showing off some of the sugar: http://simas.posterous.com/new-to-php-54-traits

Sep 20th

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Aug 27th

Top 10 Mobile Web Dev Javascript Frameworks

If you’re doing front end web dev today perhaps you’ve experienced challenges getting your Javascript framework of choice behaving just right on mobile platforms. Fortunately there are mobile optimized Javascript frameworks available. They are optimized for touchscreens, lightweight, cross-platform and leverage HTML5 and CSS3 and give you the edge to get your mobile web apps to market...

Aug 19th

HP's Big Pivot

HP exited the tablet market today. But is Apple’s dominance with the iPad too intimidating for competitive innovation? No. It’s not. HP was prepared to take on Apple. But with the changes in leadership and lack of organizational motivation at HP, their heads and hearts aren’t in the game anymore. Instead, today HP made a very public business pivot right in front of our eyes....

Aug 19th

PHP, Python, Perl & Ruby Side-By-Side

Check out this side-by-side comparison of PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby. Pretty awesome. http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

Aug 15th

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Installing NodeJS 0.4.6 on Ubuntu 10.04

morgancraft: The time has come to update my nodejs and as I was updating the docs for my project for other developers figured I’d post the instructions as well. required ubuntu packages sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils cd into node directory package wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.6.tar.gz tar -xzvf node-v0.4.6.tar.gz cd node-v0.4.6.tar.gz ./configure make sudo...

Apr 15th

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Apr 15th

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Apr 1st

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ralphmrivera asked: Are you originally from or do you have family on Arrakis (Sietch Tabr specifically?)

Mar 26th

Anonymous asked: Are you originally from or do you have family in Ohio (northwest OH specifically?)

Mar 25th

Mar 24th

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Cloud Computing on Amazon Web Services with Rightscale & PHP Talk Tonight by @neuropunks at NYPHP User Group Meeting This is a recording of the talk I posted previously.

Mar 23rd

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Cloud Computing on Amazon Web Services with Rightscale & PHP Talk Tonight by @neuropunks at tonights NYPHP User Group Meeting Watch the live video here on this page tonight at 6:30 PM EDT This event has passed. You can watch a recording of the presentation here.

Mar 22nd

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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

Mar 22nd

Mar 15th

Search Programming Book Examples With codefetch{ →

Pretty slick.

Mar 15th

8 Awesome Photography Effects & Techniques You... →

Some good ones in here. I really enjoyed learning about and trying the Bokeh effect.

Mar 15th

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CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce Introducing noSQL and the Document-oriented Database with PHP and CouchDB Presented by @BradleyHolt at NYPHP on February 22nd, 2011

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Feb 27th

Introducing Gmailr: A Javascript API for Gmail →

guillaumeb: Wondering what will be produced out of this :) I’m happy to announce that I’ve decided to open source Gmailr, a Javascript API for Gmail. It’s the code that is used to run one of my pet projects, 0Boxer, which is an extension for Gmail that turns organizing your inbox into a game. Goodie goodie. Me likes using thunderbird, as a client. But this opens up quite a number of...

Feb 24th

A wife asks her husband, a software engineer...

webvampires: “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” He replied, “They had eggs.” via Reddit *rimshot*

Feb 24th

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“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other’s...”

– Steve Jobs (via jacks) Yes. (via evangotlib)

Feb 23rd

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