Tag Archives: usability

Never having to use $_GET or $_POST again

I completely missed this great new feature build in PHP 5.2 since I haven’t been using much vanilla PHP lately due to my preference for CodeIgniter.
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Android UI: Making an Analog Rotary Knob

In this article we recreate an analog knob on Android. The result includes realistic touch-based rotation, worn textured look and even sound effects. Source is included.
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Oracle shuts down open source test servers

Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system.
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Top 18 Subversion Best Practices

My company wanted some SVN tutorials and best practices, so I compiled this list from my own experience and from StackOverflow. These are my preferences for our particular team for the types of projects we work on. They do not all apply to all types of teams and projects, so to each his own. What [...]

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata

In a previous Damn Cool Algorithms post, I talked about BK-trees, a clever indexing structure that makes it possible to search for fuzzy matches on a text string based on Levenshtein distance – or any other metric that obeys the triangle inequality. Today, I’m going to describe an alternative approach, which makes it possible to [...]

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50 Tips to Boost ASP.NET Performance

When we are looking to optimize the performance of web applications we should keep in mind about Memory Load, Processor Load and Network Bandwidth. Here are 50 best practices to improve the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications.
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HTML5 Pacman

This is most of the Pacman game everyone knows and loves. It isnt a complete implementation yet and I do plan on working some more on it, however it should mostly be playable.
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41 Remarkable and useful jQuery Plugins

jQuery is one of the most popular Javascript framwork out there. It is very easy to use and full of cool features. It can be hard for us to know how to use the code and create amazing stuff using jQuery. So, develepors decided to release and create plugins to help us fulfill this task [...]

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Minneapolis Remembered

Minneapolis Remembered

The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a dozen of the most exciting speakers and visionaries in our industry explained why this moment in web design is like [...]

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Web Design Patterns and how they can improve Front-end Coding.

Web design patterns have been around for a while, but they never really caught on.
Whatever the reason, they are incredibly valuable, even altering the way you look at building a web site. So why wait.
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