xip.io – Wildcard DNS for any IP address.

xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. Using xip.io: 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 …and so on. You can use these domains to access virtual hosts on your development web …

jQuery++

jQuery++ is a collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery. jQuery++ is all about providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn’t support. If Underscore is jQuery’s functional-programming tie, jQuery++ is jQuery’s bald-spot covering toupee. Some handy additions, yet I’m wondering why they provide an override of $.fn.animate() instead of pushing …

Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart

Looking for the right mobile framework? Compare all major mobile frameworks and choose the one that fits best. Very complete chart listing target platforms, target apps (native/hybrid/web), languages it can be developed in, hardware support, etc. Also: Who was I to think that there were only a few players (PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, jQuery Mobile, Sencha …

IE10 CSS Support

The following W3C draft standard features match these criteria and IE10 now supports them in their unprefixed form: Gradients (CSS Image Values and Replaced Content) CSS Animations CSS Transitions CSS Transforms font-feature-settings property (CSS Fonts) Indexed Database API Timing control for script-based animations (requestAnimationFrame) IE10 also supports the following W3C draft standards in vendor-prefixed form. …

LeakedIn

Today, 6.5million LinkedIn password hashes leaked. These hashes are unsalted SHA-1 hashes and can be found online. If you happen to have the file lingering around, use grep “yourhash” combo_not.txt to check your hash is in it. Also check with the hash in which you replaced the first 5 characters by 00000. If you’re not …

GPU Accelerated CSS Filters in Chromium

img { -webkit-filter: sepia(100%) contrast(200%) blur(5px); } The current set of supported filters in Chromium include many that are familiar to web developers with image processing experience, such as sepia, saturation, opacity, and blurs. GPU acceleration of these filters brings their performance to the point where they can be used for animating elements in conjunction …