Frameworks

By Tara Hornor 27th Jul 2011 General 0 Swirls and curls can add a touch of elegance, romance, fun, or even retro to your vector artwork. Sometimes searching for the perfect one, however, can be too painstaking. So, in the hopes of saving fellow artists valuable time, here are the […]

It’s easy to show lists of posts in WordPress. Your theme’s index.php file is probably handling all your categories, authors and search requests. However, sometimes you need a little more control. Perhaps you have multiple product pages but only want to feature two or three on your home page without […]

By Jason Beaird 25th Jul 2011 Color, General, Layout Tutorial 1 Closely related to the idea of unity is the concept of emphasis or dominance. Rather than focusing on the various elements of a design fitting together, emphasis is about making a particular feature draw the viewer’s attention. When you […]

Rails Gem Dependencies, Continued We left off with the TZInfo gem last time, and we’ll start with ERubis in this article. Erubis is an implementation of eRuby, which is the Ruby expressions between the % % in Ruby views. ActionPack is kind of a big deal. The rubydoc for ActionPack […]

In the two previous posts in this series Facebook in a Windows Phone 7 App and Using Windows Live ID in a Windows Phone App you saw how to use “OAuth 2” to authenticate using Facebook and Windows Live Id. Other social networking platforms use “OAuth 1” which is much […]

Everyone has at least one thing they learned to do the wrong way. Anything from spelling a word to playing a sport, or perhaps even driving! Yet, even after discovering the right way of doing it, most people still continue with their bad old habits. And this is no surprise […]

If you’re reading this blog post because you’re trying to avoid doing something you don’t enjoy, I have a suggestion for you. Stop. If you’re not enjoying the task you’re on, do something else. Stop?! But I’ll never get anything done! The employee mindset tells us we must do the […]

Hands up all those using Firebug. Of course you are. It’d be madness not to. Despite using Firebug almost every day for 5 years, I’m still finding new features and widgets. Here’s one you may have missed… When inspecting links, Firebug shows the default CSS state, i.e. styles applied to […]

One of the most overlooked new features of HTML5 is Microdata. Microdata allows us to more specifically categorize and label our web content in a machine-readable way. Why this is important is because it may positively affect your search results. When you search for something on Google or elsewhere, you […]