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How To Make An IP-To-Country Tool With PHP and MySQL When it comes to creating web applications, there is no guarantee where your audience will hail from. You might be in sunny California, but in ...
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Staying connected to home with LogMeIn Via the BBC, of all places, I read yesterday about the free remote desktop utility, LogMeIn. And after giving it a test-drive today, I’m smitten. ...
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1001s A couple of 1001 lists have been knocking about the internet recently. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and 1001 Books You Must ...
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Relaunched freelance site Yesterday I pushed out a new version of my freelance site, the first new design since 2005. Objectives When I originally launched the site, I ...
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Odd jQuery gotcha: IE and .html() Here’s an odd one. If you use jQuery’s .html() method to find a string of HTML, beware if that HTML contains any elements that have ...
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Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web? So why can’t web pages have sound effects? It was probably one of the first things you did when you first started playing with HTML, ...
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Internet semi-famous Yesterday saw a couple of spikes in site traffic. Jon Hicks mentioned my grid calculator during his presentation at FOWD, which instantly quadrupled the traffic ...
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@import considered harmful Jeremy Keith reports from FOWD that, during his presentation on From Design To Deployment, Jon Hicks recommended using @import to load separate stylesheets: For CSS, ...
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Web Standards: Semantic or Pragmatic? For anyone involved in front-end web development, it’s a scenario that crops up several times a day. The designer has delivered an attractive layout for ...
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Our Facebook application - friend finder for hotels At the day job we’ve just launched a little side-project. Stay Together is a Facebook application that mashes up the existing Events data with Google ...
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How to disable visual voicemail on the iPhone for UK users As I prepare to jet off for a week in Texas at SXSW, one of the things on my ‘to do’ list was “figure out ...
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Conversation with my daughter, aged 5 A: What’s that book about, Daddy? Can I read it? Me: It’s called American Gods, darling—it’s about a man who meets a lot of gods ...
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WCAG Samurai question So the final version of the WCAG Samurai errata to WCAG1.0 was published yesterday, and it all seems eminently sensible to me. The only correction ...
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More Facebook weirdness - horizontal scrollbar in iframe Another oddity I’ve just come across when developing an IFRAMEd Facebook application; the iframe used to display your pages has the CSS overflow property set ...
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Selflessness Here’s a question for all web designer/developer types. If you worked in a different profession—let’s say you’re a plumber, maybe, or an accountant—would you still ...