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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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 … Post [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a slick email signup form. This form will harness the full power of AJAX, meaning that we will submit data to the server, validate it, and receive a response – all without a single page refresh! Along the way, you should pick up some useful tips related [...]

The xcolor plugin is an easy-to-use jQuery extension to manipulate colors in all imaginable combinations. This plugin implements an extensiv color parser and a featureful set of color-manipulation methods. There is also an animate() extension to smooth CSS colors.Another useful method isReadable() completes the whole, by allowing you to check if a … Post original

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 [...]

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 … [...]

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. … Post original