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Episode 128 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below:   Download this Episode You can […]

Opera 11.51 was released on September 1, 2011. It’s a minor update which fixes a known security issue, improves stability and offers full-screen support in Mac Lion. Of more interest to web developers is Dragonfly 1.1 — Opera’s Firebug-like console. I gave version 1.0 a glowing review in May, but […]

Not very long ago when we were planning the launch of our humble magazine BuildMobile, which you are reading right now, the content strategy included coverage of the nebulous WebOS mobile operating system. Come launch time, there wasn’t enough traction to include it in our platform categories, but we were […]

By Jason Beaird 1st Sep 2011 Typography Tutorial 0 Many typographic decisions are based on spacing. This is something that has always been true with printed type, and became applicable to web type with the advent of CSS. Regardless of whether we’re talking about using type for print or for […]

As Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple, I was reminded how emphatic Apple customers are about the brand, and how Apple has used those brand ambassadors to grow their company to be the largest in the world. It’s not everyday you see someone trying to convince a friend why their […]

Tom’s Hardware recently completed one of the most thorough browser tests ever undertaken. The Web Browser Grand Prix pitches IE9, Firefox 6, Chrome 13, Safari 5.1 and Opera 11.5 against one another on Windows 7 and Mac OS X using the same hardware. A total of 32 tests with between […]

In part one of this tutorial, we set Sinatra up and displayed some pages. Now the fun really starts – we will be using a database to store our tasks in. In this tutorial we will be using SQLite for the local database. As its name suggests, this is a […]

One of the commonly used iOS controls is the slider control. It’s a great, all purpose slider, that allows you to quickly swipe your finger along the screen to set a value. Things get a little complicated when you want to create a range of values however. The options are […]

Like many people in tech, I run my own online server. I’m a bit old fashioned though – instead of paying a provider for my own Virtual Private Server (or VPS), I run a Xen server off my home Internet connection. Although upgraded over time, my server is nearing three […]