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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 a development …

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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 …

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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 …

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PHPBuilder.com: Downloading and Parsing Gmail Messages in PHP

New on PHPBuilder.com today there’s a tutorial showing you how to download and parse messages from Google Mail. In their case it’s grabbing and parsing submissions from a form. Some friends of mine publish a literary journal that accepts submissions via email. At their request I wrote a script to download messages from the journal’s Gmail account a …

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NoSQL databases: 10 Things you Should Know About Them

NoSQL databases: 10 Things you Should Know About Them: 5 pros and 5 cons by Guy Harrison: Five advantages of NoSQL Elastic scaling Big data Goodbye DBAs (see you later?) Economics Flexible data models Five challenges of NoSQL Maturity Support Analytics and business intelligence Administration Expertise A few amendments though: Elastic scaling: part …

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NoSQL Guide for Beginners

NoSQL Guide for Beginners: Alexandre Porcelli has a great post for NoSQL beginners: one of the most frequent question that people use to ask me about nosql is: what is the best nosql tool that enables me start with using my programming language (java, .net, php, python, etc..)? its almost impossible to have a quick answer ‘cos it involves many thin …

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InfiniteGraph Use Case: Modeling Stackoverflow

InfiniteGraph Use Case: Modeling Stackoverflow: I didn’t hear much about InfiniteGraph after its 1.0 release, except this post that uses Stackoverflow data as input to demo some features of graph databases: The vertices in the graph are represented as the Users, Questions and Answers above while the edges are represented as the interactions between …

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Picasa jQuery Plugin

A simple jQuery plugin to get albums and images from Picasa without the need for PHP, Ruby, or any other server side language. Makes it easy to create a simple, dynamic, free, client-side-only image gallery. …

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