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Archivo para September 2010

15Sep
2010
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Creating a Google Chrome Extension is as Easy as 1-2-3

Chrome Extension allows 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the Google Chrome browser. Did you know, all that it takes to develop a Google Chrome Extension is HTML, CSS, JavaScript and an icon. Sounds doable right? Let’s see how easy it is to create a ‘World Clock/Time’ Chrome Extension. … Post original
13Sep
2010
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Steponas Kazakevicius’ Blog: Interruptable file download

Steponas Kazakevicius has written up a new tutorial about file uploading and, more specifically, making an upload tool that can handle interruptions. Have you ever been to a website that offers downloads of stuff? And while you are waiting for the download, there are lots of ads around? Sure you have. I have too. The [...]
13Sep
2010
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Adding Stroke to Web Text

Fonts on the web are essentially vector based graphics. That’s why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged. Vector means that their shape is determined by points and mathematics to describe the shape, rather than actual pixel data. Because they are vector, it would make sense if [...]
10Sep
2010
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How did Google Instant become Faster with 5-7X More Results Pages?

We don’t have a lot of details on how Google pulled off their technically very impressive Google Instant release, but in Google Instant behind the scenes, they did share some interesting facts: Google was serving more than a billion searches per day. With Google Instant they served 5-7X more results pages than previously. Typical search results [...]
09Sep
2010
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Understanding and Applying Polymorphism in PHP

In object oriented programming, polymorphism is a powerful and fundamental tool. It can be used to create a more organic flow in your application. This tutorial will describe the general concept of polymorphism, and how it can easily be deployed in PHP. What is Polymorphism? Polymorphism is a long word for a very simple concept. [...]
06Sep
2010
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How Well Does Your Browser Support HTML5?

The HTML5 test score is an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. Despite these shortcomings they hope that by quantifying the level of support users and web developers will get an idea of how hard the browser manufacturers work on improving their browsers and the web as [...]
03Sep
2010
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¿Por qué usar Drupal o Joomla si se puede usar WordPress?

Hoy tengo unas cuantas preguntas. El otro día un amigo me preguntaba qué usar para hacer la web de un cliente que le pedía entre otras cosas un foro, blog, eventos, … Mi primer pensamiento fue para Drupal, pero hay un plugin para WordPress que te permite un foro, hay otro para eventos, … Total, [...]
02Sep
2010
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BonBon Buttons

These are way above and beyond the level of any other “CSS3 buttons” I’ve seen. Multiple backgrounds combining gradients and images, uneven border-radius, pseudo elements, HSL coloring, @font-face icons, transitions, box shadows, text shadows, hover and active states… the list goes on. Every trick in the book masterfully employed.They make my buttons … Post original
02Sep
2010
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Añadir estilos y scripts a la administración de plugins en WordPress

Cuando estamos desarrollando un plugin para WordPress y queremos que la administración del plugin tenga estilos y scripts propios, ya sea para darle cierta interactividad o diseño, o bien podremos incluir los estilos o librerías a pelo en la página del plugin, o bien podremos hacer que WordPress añada lo estilos y los scripts en [...]
02Sep
2010
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Scale-out vs Scale-up

In this post I'll cover the difference between multi-core concurrency that is often referred to as Scale-Up and distributed computing that is often referred to as Scale-Out mode.  more.. Source: Scale-out vs Scale-up (http://www.dzone.com/links/r/scaleout_vs_scaleup.html) by Nati Shalom … Post original