Vacuous Virtuoso

Restore sessions in Firefox

Nice and easy, three step guide.

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Fumo’s Fumin’

Fumo Smoking

This version’s not publicly available yet. Austin & Co. (developers of the application that uses this effect) need to be contacted, and I need to have an option to turn the smoke on / off. It cools down automatically when the interface is hidden, but I’m sure not everyone likes passive smoking.

Doesn’t it look fantastic?

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Exposing those private frameworks

Don’t we all just love undocumented goodness? Some people spend a lot of time exploring and experimenting with APIs and functions to see what they can accomplish. I get a fair amount of email of people asking how exactly these private, undocumented goodies are discovered. You only need two things. The appropriate tools, and lots of spare time.

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CSS Style guide generator

For a web designer, remembering the properties of all the CSS classes, IDs and elements that have been written, often over multiple stylesheets, can be a real task. Often developers need to keep referring back to their CSS to check the definitions, look at the properties and classes and find the right element. This is time wasted. Time that could be spent on more constructive endeavours.

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Function - call thyself

A function that calls itself. What sorts of pictures does that conjure in your mind? Errors, warnings or infinite loops? Crashes? Bugs? Believe it or not, using a function that calls itself can be used for more than hanging up IE. It can cut down on the amount of code you have to write, often by hundreds of lines.

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Dissing Fumo? Look at this…

This is post is old. Really old. Head over to the shiny new one.

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