February 2009
9 posts
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Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams →
Good stuff.
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BWToolkit - Interface Builder Plugin for Cocoa on... →
An impressive looking set of Interface Builder additions.
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Scaling Rails - RailsLab →
A continuing series of short screencasts with details on how to scale Rails applications. Episodes so far include responsiveness, page caching, fragment caching and action caching.
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SitePoint » 5 Books For The Price of 1 →
Help Support The Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal and get a good deal on web design and development books from SitePoint.
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The League of Moveable Type →
Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
Only one font so far, but this could be a good resource if it grows.
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HTTP Basic Authentication "Logout" with... →
I’ve been struggling with this exact issue. Looking forward to trying this solution. To summarize, the solution to getting your app to “forget” the HTTP Basic credentials is to append a hash (#) to the end of the URLs that you are requesting data from.
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Quick Tip: Remove Gap Between iPhone Status Bar...
If you ever come across the problem in the image below where there is a small gap between the iPhone status bar and the navigation bar, add the following code to fix it:
[viewController.view setFrame: [viewController.view bounds]];
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Five Simple Steps ~ A book by Mark Boulton →
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great...
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tlvx: The technical story of Muxtape →
An interesting write up on some of the technical decisions behind Muxtape, including their decision to move from PHP to Ruby on Rails.
“How long do you think it would take to re-write the site in Rails?” “Umm, well..”, Cmd-T, “localhost:3000”, Enter, “It already is.”