Tag Archives: development

Pie Guy, a free web game for iPhone

Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun (works sorta like Pac-Man). Neven Mrgan, the developer of Pie Guy, built the game – not only so people can enjoy the game – [...]
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Wrap text around an image with jQSlickWrap

Neat jQuery plugin that makes it dead simple to wrap text around an image. The key point here is that it will actually wrap the text around the contents of the image, not just the bounding box of an image. /via Simon Willison.
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Google Chrome’s view source “oddity”

Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it doesn’t work very well [...]
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CodeIgniter is fast

CodeIgniter is faster than its competitors by quite a margin. Glad we at Viddler chose it for our PHP-based solutions. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.
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A few tips to good API design

Good API design is essential to an API being used. The design of an API can be extremely daunting when you are just starting out with a new service so here are a few tips that can help you along the way to build a good, usable API. Use your own API. The very best way [...]
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Zen-coding, snippets for the rest of us

Jonathan Christopher of Monday By Noon talks about snippets and zen-coding, a “Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding”, in a nice piece about his experience with same. I’ve been dabbling with zen-coding plugins with Coda for about a week. Loving it.
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How to: Use the Viddler API with CodeIgniter

Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog: “The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a bit so we figured we’d share with you how easy it is to include PHPViddler, the open source PHP API wrapper class for the [...]
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Code Igniter vs. CakePHP – An overview by Jonathan Snook

Speaking of Code Igniter, Jonathan Snook (way back in March 2007) compared it to CakePHP. Although both frameworks have matured slightly since then, this overview still holds up ok – although he is a fan of CakePHP where I’d choose Code Igniter. Thank goodness for choices.
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A PHP Wrapper for Freewheel.tv’s API

Jeff Johns, fellow Viddler team member and jogger (although he’s much more accomplished than I in that area), recently wrote and released an open source PHP wrapper for Freewheel’s API. Much needed by the Viddler team, open for the world.
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Add a progress bar to your Viddler uploads

We get this question a lot at Viddler: How can I add a progress bar to my uploads using the Viddler API? We’re always asked if this is something included in our API wrappers. Until now, it hasn’t been. That’s where phpViddlerUploadify comes in. This extension to phpViddler, our PHP wrapper for our API, makes [...]
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Coda + Versions + Beanstalk = Drool

Quite possibly the easiest way to use version control on the Macintosh.
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Figuring out the proper dimensions to embed the Viddler player using JavaScript or PHP

A few simple functions in both JavaScript and PHP to figure out the appropriate height for Viddler's video player.
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FancyZoom, rewritten using Prototype

John Nunemaker, of Ordered List, decided that Cabel Sasser's smooth zooming Javascript could use some improvement.
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The new Kyle Slattery.com

My friend Kyle has a new site. It's purrdy.
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Brightkite’s smart “profile not found” pages

Brightkite has a smart "profile not found" page.
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About a million little things

More than a few updates to this site's theme.
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Third-party iPhone applications: Take one.

A few thoughts from the first weekend of third-party iPhone applications.
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Pagination in Facebook applications with PHP

A snippet from Kyle Slattery.
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oEmbed: Quick, easy, resource embedding

A quick overview of oEmbed, how I got involved with the spec, and who is using it so far.
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Help Twitter! Use “server friendly” tools.

A list of applications that, if set properly, can help Twitter with their scaling problem rather than pummel their servers with requests.
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