Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

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John Horton commissioned this thing on oDesk.. I need to ...

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are an important part o... infrastructure that are frequently used without a full u... what’s happening behind the scenes. You’ll hear peop... we put that on the CDN” or “make sure static assets ... when they h

It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
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Machines, including the likes of search engines, content... countless applications, are increasingly consuming web c...
So what does this mean for designers and developers? Wor ...
Research has shown that brands that have jumped on the A ...
Then I real

Creating equal-height columns with CSS is sometimes a be... the hassle of faux columns, “clear” divs and the res... of jQuery, you can easily equalize the heights of any gr...

HTML5 offers a lot of exciting new features in the realm... my favorite new additions to forms in HTML5 is the place... Placeholder text is the “hint” or “example” text...
<input type="text" placeholder="Start typing to begin s ...
The only ne

CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Lo... Applications and Services.
CloudMade provides application developers with a range o ...

Code Drop: VisualSearch.js
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Jun 23rd, 2011
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... t, so you don’t have to manually re-parse it yourself.

Today we’re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis...
A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ...
This example guider is not attached to any element and h ...
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An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

Real Studio is a full-featured, cross-platform software ... suited to creating a wide range of applications, from ut... enterprise-class applications. Real Studio is the only o... cross-platform software development tool that enables us... to create p

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
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BBC GEL Social Media Icons v1.0
Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creati ...
The BBC’s icons were lovely, single-colour icons, and ...
When BBC News (my news source of choice) launched a beau ...
... d I claim no ownership of the logos

Docvert takes word processor files (typically .doc) and ...
Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Open ...
The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted ...
The result is returned in a .zip file.
Docvert has a user-friendly inter

The Zero Clipboard library provides an easy way to copy ... clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie, and a Ja... interface. The "Zero" signifies that the library is invi... interface is left entirely up to you.
This library is fully compatible w

Litmus lets you preview your campaigns across 34 email c...
Preview in real email clients
Litmus shows you screenshots of your email newsletter as ...
Check on mobile devices
See your email on the most popular mobile devices. Litmu ...

To summarize: For any and all PUT/POST/DELETE operations... In progress” and a new “Status” resource, which co... progress indicator, a target_uri for whatever’s being ... to identify the operation, and, when progress reaches 10...
We also tho

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15
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Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ...
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There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encoura... development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news op ...

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Crazy Egg lets you visualize every click your visitors m ...
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suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permi... owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and ... binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to ch... the process executing the PHP interpreter.

In this third part we will install an apache webserver w... different php versions. I will use php4 and php5, howeve... be used for php5 and php6 (as soon as there is at least ... candidate version) or even it can be used to install mul... php5 versio

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function bookmark_us(url, title){
if (window.sidebar) // firefox
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");
... </script>

In certain instances, not everyone views every portion o... online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of i... this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet ...
It’s a simple problem of resolution. Images are always ...
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