Monthly Archives: December 2009

What is Brisket?

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Will

Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest. While all meat animals have a brisket, the term is most often used to describe beef and sometimes veal. The beef brisket is one of the eight beef … Continue reading →

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microsoft paper banner ads

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Will

So it seems like a new tend in design is that of having paper cutouts used, especially with some different textures, reminiscent a little of the late 70′s – especially for advertisements. Microsoft is getting on board with the trend, … Continue reading →

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Intuitive Usability / User Experience / UX

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Will

UX hero says it best: Ambiguity compounds stress by making the path unclear. When it’s not clear what will happen when you press a button, or whether “undo” is possible, you have to think harder and longer before taking action. … Continue reading →

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XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Will

XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language, and is a style sheet language for XML documents. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations. In this tutorial you will learn how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other formats, like XHTML. Start … Continue reading →

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Information wants to be free

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Will

“Information wants to be free” is an expression that has come to be the unofficial motto of the free content movement.

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Top U.S. Companies by Sales

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Will

Here is a list of the top 1800 US Companies by sales. This is listed in alphabetical order (sorry) but does include the location (city, state) and phone number of the companies. Check out my other datasets. The list includes … Continue reading →

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Mod Rewrite on ASP Server

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Will

To create rewrites (mod_rewrite on Apache servers), you will need: * Access to your .htaccess (Apache) file or httpd.conf (IIS) file in your root EE directory * Mod_rewrite enabled on your server (Apache on Windows or Linux) * ISAPI_Rewrite enable … Continue reading →

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Web Design: Don’t overuse your Logo font

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Will

Quite a few people make the mistake of using their logo font in their web page design. While this approach does keep consistency between the fonts, it makes the logo look less like a “mark” or “brand” and more like part of … Continue reading →

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jQueryUI Position – A nice job on visual documentation

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Will

I love the documentation provided for jQueryUI’s position

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Heredocs and Nowdocs in PHP

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Will

A here document (also called a here-document, a heredoc, a here-string or a here-script) is a way of specifying a string literal in command line shells including all the Unix shells (sh, csh, ksh, Bash and zsh) and the Windows … Continue reading →

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