Apr 23
Dynamic Content Injection with Canvas and Video
Frikkin awesome stuff the Mozilla team is doing with Canvas.
Just check the video out here.
More here.
Apr 21
10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
“Use child selectors”, “Make full use of 24-bit PNGs”, My favourite is “Enjoy ourselves again”.
Full details after the break.
Apr 20
How to Scare IE Users into Upgrading
Add this line of code onto your website.
“<!–[if lt IE 7]><style type=”text/css”>@import url(http://www.jinjadev.co.za/topBar.css);</style><div id=”advBrowserWarning”><a href=”http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox”><b>WARNING!!!</b> Your version of Internet Explorer has known security issues! To protect your computer please correct this now. Click here to upgrade…</a></div><![endif]–>”
Stolen from here.
Apr 08
Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
You’ve done the sweetest Ajax site this side of the Vaal. Your client loves the way the text flashes red->black->red->black. The brighter the better right?
So you’re ready to go live… Or are you?
Some essential checks before launching your website after the break…
Apr 06
The Eight Levels of Programmers
Nice article from Coding Horror on where you do see yourself in 5 years… and 30 years?
The 8 levels go from Dead Programmer (Your code has survived and transcended your death.) to Bad Programmer (People who somehow fell into the programmer role without an iota of skill or ability.)
I hope that some day, long after my dogs have spread my ashes out on the moon, a programmer out there will be giggling at my comments.
The full list after the break.
Apr 03
Top 10 things that annoy Programmers
“Programmers all have their pet peeves. Whether it’s scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we’ve come to accept that there are certain nuisances that come with our line of work. ”
My personal favourite peeve from the list is No 3. Vagueness!
The full list after the break or check out the Source!
Apr 01
How to be a better web developer
Subscribe to Smashing Magazine.
This particular article goes over the best practices and popular trends of backgrounds in the current stage of innovative Web design.
My favourite background of any site for the past 6 months has been SilverBack.
(Drag the window bigger and smaller to see what I mean)
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