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Git tutorial for better github etiquette 14 Feb 2012 | 11:45 am
Mostly, this is a note to me because, while I use git is and understand what the commands do when it comes to github I find myself intimidated. The public work can you see there done for the benefit o...
jQuery LaTeX rendering with Google Charts API 10 Dec 2011 | 01:42 pm
June 2012 update: For whatever reason this API is depreciating.. I guess there's http://www.mathjax.org Google Charts API allows us to properly render cool math formulas and other TeX noted stuff. You...
Google Chart API rules for generating QR codes 15 Nov 2011 | 10:51 am
Google Chart API has a number of great tools for data visualization. Check it out at http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ when you have a chance. They also have slick tools for pointers, (like thought...
21 New Web Fonts from Google Fonts 28 Jan 2011 | 01:52 pm
The 28th of December Google released 21 new fonts for 2011. If you haven't yet, it is time to check them out. No doubt this will inspire some great web design in 2011. Ubuntu Mountains of Christmas Ca...
21 New Typefaces from Google Fonts 28 Jan 2011 | 08:52 am
The 28th of December Google released 21 new Typefaces for 2011. If you haven't yet, it is time to check them out. No doubt this will inspire some great web design in 2011. Ubuntu Mountains of Christma...
Google Font API looks nice 29 Jun 2010 | 08:43 pm
Can nice fonts really be this simple? Google's people made some real basic web font stuff. Finally, after over a decade, this may be enough of a push behind good web fonts for the web to start looking...
WordPress template redesign with object oriented CSS 24 Mar 2010 | 11:55 pm
This WordPress template has been redesign using object oriented CSS. It was long past due for a site redesign but my personal blog generally takes a back seat to what I'm working on. All the same I wa...
Twitter based comment plugin 16 Mar 2010 | 01:02 am
Twitter based comments you can embed on almost any site or page seems like a naturally good way to improve the visibility of your content. Every site has share this and bookmark buttons, which is grea...
CSS Background Color Transparency – IE Safe 14 Mar 2010 | 05:10 pm
Creating browser compatible CSS background color transparency is super easy, but it took some investigation (Googlin' until I ended up at Microsoft's site, deciphering this article) to bring internet ...
Selenium and Perl = tears of joy 28 Feb 2010 | 08:38 am
Selenium IDE + Selenium RC + Perl's WWW::Selenium is teh GG and I am compelled to share. For dankey's years I've been scraping, and crawling, and spidering, and mashing. For most basic stuff, w/o a go...