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How we built Singup.org

A nerdy visualisation of the activity on the singup.org Git repository.

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Zend_Feed and changing the date

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone a bit of time in the future…
When using Zend_Feed to create your RSS, don’t use:
pubDate => date(‘r’, $item->timestamp)

This doesn’t work as you’d expect. You’ll only ever get the current time. …

Cache Reminder

Things not appearing as they should when you know you’ve made changes to a website? Usually this is down to caching and some browsers (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer) are particularly stubborn when it comes to clearing the …

HTML5 Video and Canvas – a little game

Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox
How does it work?
Mostly witchcraft but also Javascript and some of the new APIs offered to us by HTML5.
We start by embedding a video using the wonderful <video> tag. Then we hide the video. …

HTML5 drag and drop, Spotify and Yahoo! Music.

Drag and drop has been around on the desktop for ages. The web eventually caught on but it was a bit rubbish. Wouldn’t be it be nice if your web applications interact with your ‘real’ applications? Thankfully, HTML5 is great.

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