Category Archives: programming

Insanity is just a state of mind

Paul Hayes came up with 3D Cube using CSS transformations:

What you see is pure HTML+CSS(!) rendered by Webkit/Firefox3.5.

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State of upcoming Firefox 3.5

Alongside with newest WebKit builds, Mozilla is adding lots of new and promising features to Gecko:

HTML5 and @font-face support!
Media Queries, allowing website/webapp developers to load certain stylesheets depending on the device properties, like:
display’s aspect ratio, bits per color, color/monochrome display, etc.
Nearly all of those properties accept min/max prefixes, and can be combined using logical operators,
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Checking font availability with jQuery

FontAvailable is a short and brilliant jQuery plugin (put together by Howard Rauscher), that allows to check if ceratin font is installed on a visitor’s computer/device. Why, you ask? So you can select an adequate method of enhancing your website/webapp typography (@font-face, sIFR, typeface.js, cufón, etc.).
$(document).ready(function() {
if($.fontAvailable('klavika')) {
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Updating Wordpress engine via SSH

Wordpress updates made me sick. My blood boiled every time when a stable update came out. I had to download package to my local HD, unpack it and upload files to server. All this while keeping in mind fact, that i had to prepare it to prevent overwriting some crucial files/directories – otherwise I’d end [...]

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