Tag: Web

Speed Cache

Another WordPress plugin. I’ve been using this on my own site for a long time and, after people encountered 404s searching for it, have decided to publish it.

Speed Cache basically takes external files such as javascript and CSS and mirrors them on your own server. I’m not going to go into detail about why you’d want to do this - you either do or you don’t. If you do, then feel free to use the plugin.

Here it is.

Support questions in the comments for now, but I’m not providing any guarantees. This post may be replaced by a proper info page about the plugin sometime in the future, but at the moment that’s unlikely.

FancyForm - Pretty checkboxes and radios

Styling form controls has always been limited with HTML and CSS. Not anymore. FancyForm provides the solution by letting you style checkboxes and radio buttons as you would any other elements, while degrading gracefully on older and non-graphical browsers.

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Javascript does Cocoa too

Running Objective-C code from Javascript

Java, Python and Ruby can access Cocoa APIs and Objective-C classes. What about the super-extensible yet severely under-appreciated Javascript? With the WebKit framework, you can access Objective-C from any script present in a HTML document.

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Make the most of the iPhone SDK

Safari The iPhone, like Safari and many other browsers, runs on WebKit, which is one of the most blazing fast, powerful, standards-compliant rendering engine ever. Although there is no official Cocoa API for iPhone app development, it’s not like we have nothing to work with. Writing web apps for the iPhone will be a pretty good experience for two reasons:

  1. We don’t have to worry about IE support when writing our web app
  2. WebKit is amazing.

Highlighted below are ten CSS rules that make WebKit extra-great. Many of the previews require a WebKit-based browser like Safari, OmniWeb or Shiira.

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Track Dugg stories for your domain

I can finally talk about it! Yes, sir, the Digg API has officially been released.

I’ve been playing around with it for a few weeks now, so already got a a little mini app together using the Digg API. It’s a Dugg story tracking service that creates an RSS feed for the stories that have been Dugg for a particular domain. Essentially, all you have to do is type in a domain or subdomain, and subscribe to the resulting feed that you’re presented with. Easy.

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National API week

Two very important APIs were released this week. One is web-based, the other is Mac-based.

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