Some of our ramblings

A collection of thoughts, opinions and finds

Phing Symlink task

Many projects have shared items across them. For example, Typo3 projects can share the same source, but just sticking it on the include path doesn’t necessarily solve the problem, so you have to symlink it from a shared location …

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New brand and website for Leading Edge Design

3ev were given the task of not only designing and building Leading Edge Design’s new website but also help develop their branding. The brief was to create a brand that was modern yet still familiar to existing clients. The …

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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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What the font!

The majority of designers are pretty good at recognising fonts but, like the rest of us, they do have limits and can’t remember every typeface created by every foundry since the Gutenberg press. Thankfully WhatTheFont! by MyFonts can help …

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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. …

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