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20 January 2010 ~ 19 Comments

CSS Minification on the Fly

CSS Minification on the Fly

Introduction
So, I  recently took the habit to fire Google’s Page Speed to learn about my websites performances and looking for ways to optimize them for my particular hosting solution and for the benefits of my readership (you).
One of the recommendation was to minify CSS. We (web workers) have all encountered JavaScript minification. This became a [...]

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11 August 2009 ~ 23 Comments

PyGame – Event Handling

PyGame – Event Handling

Introduction
To continue further into my PyGame exploration articles and tutorials,  I’ll try to come up with a complete Shmup game as example. I already covered Animated sprites and Parallax Scrolling in 2D games as a start you can look at the PyGame tutorials list page to see them all.
The goal of this article is [...]

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20 July 2009 ~ 10 Comments

Home Web Hosting Best Practices

Home Web Hosting Best Practices

Welcome dear reader. Today I’m sharing with you my experience on how to be your own web host.
Before you read any further, I’ll ask you some questions to help you to determine if  you Should.

Do you have any knowledge about how internet is working ? I mean technical stuff like protocols, ports or DNS or,
Do [...]

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06 March 2009 ~ 7 Comments

20+1 Shiny, Colorful iPhone Wallpapers from Flickr Artists

20+1 Shiny, Colorful iPhone Wallpapers from Flickr Artists

I litteraly crawled the flickr website to find high quality, colorful  iPhone wallpapers. All the following items in this collection are licensed under Creative Commons so you can use them freely as long as it’s not for commercial purposes. For more informations you may contact the respective authors.
Kohdai
Colors
Contact :

Tumblr profile
Flickr profile

Tom Ferris
Mac OS X
Contact :

Flickr [...]

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24 February 2009 ~ 8 Comments

7 jQuery Plugins to Really Enhance Users Experience

Hi fellow reader of the Shiny Blog, today I am tired of seeing this blog posts schema : ” YOU WOULD LITERALY DIE FOR”.  We have an expression for this in France : “On dit qu’il y a à boire et à manger là dedans”. This approximately means that you will actually have to [...]

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20 February 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Online Tools for Web Designers, The essential List

1. Squidfingers / Patterns

Set of 158 seamless background patterns free for download!
2. COLOURlovers

Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.
3. Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make [...]

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15 February 2009 ~ Comments Off

I know now a dead language

As Ryan Stemkoski recently stated in a blog post, Microsoft ASP is now dead.
Thanks to my extremely sharpened sense in detecting living-dead programming languages, I switched to PHP about seven years ago.

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