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CSS User Agent

In a Modernizr inspired style (or is it vice versa?), CSS User Agent adds classes to the <html> tag to allow one to easily target the different browsers instead of having to rely on CSS hacks. Unlike Modernizer however, CSS User Agent relies on browser sniffing (parsing the user-agent string) making it not recommended over …

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Reset Revisited

After four years Eric Meyer revisits his infamous CSS reset.

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Vaporware 2010

“It’s time again for Wired’s annual Vaporware awards, when we recognize the products, videogames and other nerdy tidbits pitched, promised and hyped, but never delivered.” — And no, The Duke ain’t on the the 1st place.

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Lessons from SlideShare: Cloud Computing Fiascos & How to Avoid Them

“My company, SlideShare, has been using cloud computing for almost everything we do, so we’ve made our share of blunders. Here are two of the more notable ones”

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How to clone Delicious in 48 hours

“You may have heard that Delicious is shutting down (or not?). Someone on Twitter suggested that a group of engineers should get together on a weekend and build a Delicious clone. In anticipation of this mystery group of people sitting down and doing this, I thought I’d make a quick todo list for them.”

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Chromeless 0.1

“Chromeless is an experimental toolkit to make it possible to prototype browser applications using HTML, JavaScript and related Web standards.” — The video wouldn’t load at this moment, yet I do think they’ve wanted to embed this one right here.

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Isle of Tune

“Isle of Tune lets you create musical journeys from street layouts. Roadside elements are your instruments and cars are the players.” — Be sure to click the Top 50 button and load Michael Jackson’s Beat It

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ImpactJS HTML5 Game Engine

ImpactJS, the HTML5 Game Engine powering the awesome Biolab Disaster, has been made available: “Impact allows you to develop HTML5 Games in no time. Games created with Impact require no browser plugins or any software installations – just a modern browser.”

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PHP Advent Calendar

A highly interesting feed I’ve been following the past few days is PHP Advent, a set of articles released each day during the advent (just like 24ways, but then PHP related). Highly recommended articles are First Class APIs (a method I suggest all my students to use when building an advanced project), Bits and PHPieces …

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7 persuasion techniques

How to exploit seven persuasion techniques on the web

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