links for 2007-10-15
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One thing I’m impressed with about Apple’s new system GUI in Leopard is the “inset effect†on the text in combination with the new window chrome. Several people asked me about my opinion on Leopards GUI and…
Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat. You might think it would be as simple as this:#lightbox { background: white; border: 20px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.3); }Howe …
Xeround is a new MySQL storage engine offered as Database-as-a-Service. What it promises sounds (a bit?) too good to be true (nb this list have been extracted from their site): seamless replacement of existing MySQL database high availability (including schema changes) automatic fault-detection and recovery full consistency with low latency elastic …
Like a lot of developers, we start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS templates. We’ve been using these files for a long time and we’ve progressively added bits and pieces to them as our own personal best practices have evolved. …