Here is a must-have for any developer: an up-to-date chart of CSS3 support in all major browsers. If you do any kind of web-development work, and don’t find this insanely useful, then you might want to reconsider your choice of careers. I even printed it off as a poster, and hung it on the wall in [...]
Browsing Tips & Tricks
A Look At CSS Sprites
A Little Background… Of all the tools in my Web Developer’s Toolkit™, perhaps the most used, and the most useful, is a trick called the CSS Sprite. It’s an “advanced” technique that is actually deceptively simple, and leads to fantastic advantages in loading times of web pages. First, a quick primer. A “sprite” doesn’t refer [...]
QR Codes
QR Codes are becoming more and more visible these days, appearing everywhere from magazines, to bus stop ads. They even had a dancer hold up a giant QR Code in Stephen Colbert’s hilarious rendition of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”. They’re a useful tool that can help connect the physical world to the virtual one. A QR [...]
Abusing t.co for Fun and Profit
Ah, yes. t.co. That amazingly tiny url shortening service created by Twitter when they decided that they wanted to alienate and abandon all the 3rd party developers who helped make them into the powerhouse social networking service that they are today. Using t.co has big advantages on Twitter, too: the original link is shown when [...]
Photoshop Faster
While researching methods of loading Applications for my messy apps post, I started looking into which files Adobe Photoshop CS 5 was actually loading. Turns out, there were a LOT of plugins that I’d never actually used that came bundled with it, and these were adding a lot of overhead during my graphics editing sessions. [...]
Fixing Messy Mac Apps
Mac App folders are a great thing. They bundle all the application’s files, executables, libraries and resources into a single place, makes them easy to move, copy, install and delete, and it looks pretty decently organized when you open your Applications folder. It gets really annoying then, when a non-native or ported app has additional files [...]