Just the other day I was finally fed up with managing a website with FTP and switched to website hosting with Git. In hindsight I don’t understand why haven’t done this transition a long time ago. It is so much more convenient and setting it up is really just a matter of minutes. This article […]
All it takes to analyze SSL certificates on macOS is, as so often, a single shell command. macOS comes with everything you need pre-installed. This is yet another “notepad scribble post” i.e. a public note for myself so I don’t have to search the Internet next time I want to analyze SSL certificates on macOS. Dump […]
“How to validate email with PHP” is conceptually part of a bigger problem: accurately validating web forms including emails without sacrificing good UX. I’ll blog about that some other time. This post presents and dissects PHP code to validate email. The explanations and my reasoning should allow you to adjust the code to your needs […]
Intro There are a number of tutorials out there on the Internet that tell you how to do Sencha Touch native packaging for iOS. The subject is also covered pretty well in the Sencha Touch docs. The problem I have with all those resources: they’re either outdated, outright wrong or stop half-way. I don’t need […]
The CSS3 text-oveflow property allows to have content not exceed a certain limit. Browsers can be asked to place ellipsis, the … “character”, after the last visible character rather than just cutting content off. It’s a nice visual indication for readers that there’s actually more content than what is shown. Later you’ll learn techniques how […]
AngularJS @Devoxx 2012 I attended the AngularJS workshop @Devoxx – a blast. AngularJS has really opened my eyes as for how to build modern web apps. I think I became angularized in an instant. Then I went home and to told our CTO and a few colleagues at work. A few days ago we started […]
A year ago I urged you readers to tell Mozilla to stop the madness called “rapid release process”. Sure, the update process has since improved a lot but still…I was quite happy to see that Mozilla’s own people start agreeing that there is a problem with the rapid release process indeed. Jono Xia, a former […]
Found myself looking for five harmonic colors the other day. Since (graphic) design isn’t one of my strengths I asked Google. http://kuler.adobe.com/ came up and I didn’t look no further. Perfect match.
I’m pleased to announce that the first version of my jQuery highlight plugin (based on jQuery of course) that supports a lenient mode was released today. It normalizes or unaccents text before the highlight pattern is applied (sort of). So, it’s a quite a bit more advanced and versatile than plugins that are simply case-insensitive. […]
Google PageSpeed reported that the JPEG images of a web project I recently worked on should be optimized i.e. compressed. So, I used jpegoptim in batch mode on OS X for the job. You need to build the jpegoptim binary for OS X yourself. Short manual: Download jpegoptim sources from developer’s website Unpack the TAR […]