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Flipity flop - mmm.phpied.com
Randomly browsing something on the iPhone it occurred to me that people could prefix their mobile sites with "mmm" instead of "m" or "i", as in mmm.mysite.tld. It's longer, true, but I don't think it will take longer to type three m's instead of one....
Open source CMS award 2009
It's this time of the year again - the Packt open source CMS awards. Yours truly has been in the jury in the past two years in the "PHP CMS" category, this time I was selected to judge in the "Other" category. So I had the pleasure of reviewing 5 non...
@font-face gzipping - take II
Since my previous post on @font-face and gzipping, Paul Irish has asked (and so has @KLTF) what about WOFF? WOFF is a newer format with built in compression and ability to store meta data. So I took this stnf2woff utility and converted all the TTF an...
Browser’s implied globals
Like it's not bad enough that JavaScript has implied globals (forget var and you create a global), but the browsers have decided it's a good idea to add more pollution to the global namespace. This has been a source of frustration before with IE, it'...
Gzip your @font-face files
Adding custom fancy fonts to a web page seems to be all the rage these days. Looking at some examples with Net panel on, I saw some of those font files are 100K which is a pretty big price to pay for an ornament like this. I mean you can build whole ...
CSS munging - a FAILed experiment
Not sure if I've ever put that in writing, but CSS irks me with its verboseness. I mean things like: background-position, padding-bottom, text-decoration... those are long property names, repeatedly used in stylesheets. And there's pretty much nothin...

A must if you're preparing for the php certification exam,
Posted: April 19th, 2005 | Report This Comment