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Sparrow acquired by Google 21 Jul 2012 | 03:01 am
Today on http://sprw.me/ We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most > intuitive ...
Testing REST webservices with browser extensions 9 Jul 2012 | 08:54 pm
I’ve been developing a REST webservice for some time now and I’ve found it hard to find the right tools to actually trial and error test the API we are building. For simple GET or even POST requests a...
preppeller: Alfred 1.3 is coming along great! One new feature... 22 Jun 2012 | 07:47 pm
preppeller: Alfred 1.3 is coming along great! One new feature which has been a long time requested and desired feature is the ability to work with multiple file selections in Alfred for actions such ...
Redundant HTML tags 10 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
Since the dawn of HTML5 a lot has changed in building valid HTML pages. What many people don’t know is that in order to present a valid HTML5 document you don’t even need the <html>, <head> or <body> ...
Why relative date notations suck ... most of the time 2 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
Relative date notations are nice, when reading blog comments it makes so much more sense to know that someone replied “3 days ago" instead of knowing that someone replied on the “29th of march 2012". ...
The "Self Executing Function" pattern in PHP 29 Mar 2012 | 11:00 am
Every modern day web developer knows (or at least should know) the self executing function pattern in javascript. It’s an easy way to run your code in a closure and thus avoid variable naming collisio...
Why I'm naming my Primary and Foreign keys the same! 26 Mar 2012 | 11:00 am
I’ve recently changed the habit from naming my primary keys in an SQL table id to table_id just like I would name the key if it were a foreign key in another table. To me this has several advantages,...
Consuming the twitter streaming API with PHP 22 Mar 2012 | 09:00 pm
For a pet project I needed to get all twitter messages with a certain hashtag, I was looking for ways to consume the twitter streaming API with PHP and there are several libraries like Phirehose out t...
Hi. I had the same issue with the status bar leaping all over the place. I found it distracting and annoying, so much so that I wrote a CSS userstyle ... 22 Mar 2012 | 01:44 pm
Yea, thanks! I’ve seen the CSS fix and it’s quite simple, the UserStyle solution is probably the cleanest since it doesn’t mess with the internal chrome stylesheets! Thanks alot! Fixed statuspanel
The statusbar that couldn't make it's mind up 21 Mar 2012 | 09:00 pm
Since Firefox 4 Mozilla has dropped the statusbar in favor of a link-target bar popping up whenever appropriate. Whether or not this is a good thing is open for discussion but there is one thing that ...
