A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Adobe’s Web Platform group teamed up with Food Network to experiment with bringing their popular Cupcakes! tablet application to the web. See how we turned beautiful content from Food Network, hardware from Leap Motion, speech recognition, responsive tooling, and new layout and graphics standards into a next-generation web experience. Canvas Blend Modes, CSS Masks, CSS …
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Naming things is by far the most difficult part of writing CSS. This is because we can’t predict the future. A class name might make perfect sense one day, then the design changes, and it’s a misnomer the next day. We’re then tasked with refactoring our markup and styles so that they make sense. Yuck. …
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android, and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs. Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called …
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Think, for a moment, just how crazy this is. If you’re in Boston and someone tells you that they heard a sound coming from New York City, you’re probably going to give them a funny look. But Boston is a mere 200 miles from New York. What we’re talking about here is like being in …
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The Physical Web is an approach to unleash the core super power of the web: interaction on demand. People should be able to walk up to any smart device: e.g. a vending machine, a poster, a toy, a bus stop, a rental car, and not have to download an app first in order to use …
switch($_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’]) { case ‘/’: echo ‘This is the home page’; break; case ‘/about’: echo ‘This is the about page’; break; default: echo ‘Not found!’; } Good introduction on the Sitepoint website to getting started with a few of the Symfony Components. Starts with the example code above and – one by one – introduces the …
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check host localhost with address 127.0.0.1 if failed ping then alert if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then alert check process apache with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid start program = “/etc/init.d/apache2 start” stop program = “/etc/init.d/apache2 stop” Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and …
OS X Yosemite introduced JavaScript for Automation. This makes it possible to access native OS X frameworks with JavaScript. The result above can be built using this code: ObjC.import(“Cocoa”); var styleMask = $.NSTitledWindowMask | $.NSClosableWindowMask | $.NSMiniaturizableWindowMask; var windowHeight = 85; var windowWidth = 600; var ctrlsHeight = 80; var minWidth = 400; var minHeight …