A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
We took a popular ecommerce store (O’Neill Clothing) that we’d recently redesigned and monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks. Then we quietly deployed the responsive conditions to the already live site and monitored for another three weeks. In case you ever need present some numbers to one of your colleagues in order to …
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“Find Your Way to Oz” is a new Google Chrome Experiment brought to the web by Disney. It allows you to take an interactive journey through a Kansas circus, which leads you to the land of Oz after you are swept up by a massive storm. Find Your Way to Oz → “Find Your Way …
ORM Package for Node.js. Works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. var orm = require(‘orm’); orm.connect("mysql://username:password@host/database", function (err, db) { if (err) throw err; var Person = db.define(‘person’, { name : String, surname : String, age : Number, male : Boolean, continent : [ ‘Europe’, ‘America’, ‘Asia’, ‘Africa’, ‘Australia’, ‘Antartica’ ], // ENUM type photo : …
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Instructions for use with SublimeText3 in the comments below One of the features I find lacking in Sublime Text is the default support for Markdown syntax highlighting. Fortunately Sublime Text can be customized and we can define a color scheme of our own. To get the results as shown in the screenshot above, edit your …
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UPDATE 2013.02.09: Via the comments I’ve come to know that it is possible with ln after all as long as you don’t combine a tilde (˜) and quotes in the source path (which I did because some of my folders have spaces in their name). Just escape any spaces with a \ and the tilde …
Good proposal by Adobe as this is an actual problem we’re facing in web development right now. Results in better readability and as an extra it also prevents typographic widows The proposed CSS looks like this: h1 { text-wrap: balance; } Balancing Text for better readability → The original article seems to be gone. Link …
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Turns out it’s possible to enable autocompletion of git branch names when working on the command line. The script can be automatically installed on OS X using these commands: $ curl -G https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash > ~/.git-completion.sh $ echo ‘source ~/.git-completion.sh’ >> ~/.bash_profile Don’t forget to re-open any already open Terminal windows. (via @decthomas) UPDATE: I’ve been …