Cool Photo Trick
Yeah, it’s not really relevant to development, but still cool. Make a flash diffuser out of an old film canister:
Article on Photojojo
07
Mar
2008
Hey There!
Welcome to Gen X Design. The name’s a little corny, I know, but it’s one of those things I’ve used since I was a kid.
Anyway, I built this site for me (and some friends) to share their thoughts and ideas. I love all things web 2.0, shiny icons, and gradients. I live in the San Francisco Bay area, work for Aptana, and am sometimes available for contract work.
Quickies & Cool Stuff
Top 7 Fonts Used In Graphic Design
Came across this perusing the web… great round-up of the fonts most commonly used by professional designers. Check it out over at Jacob Cass’s site:
Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design
PHP to JavaScript
Really cool project for porting PHP functions to JS… 198 so far. A lot of really handy string and array functions, definitely worth a look.
PHP to JavaScript Project
SOA PHP
I’ve been toying with REST and other SOA kinda things lately, and stumbled across these links in my research:
SOA PHP Homepage
SCA_SDO PECL Extension
Firebug Lite 1.2 Released
If you’ve ever used Firebug for JS development, you know how indisposable it is. If you haven’t, you’re insane, and you need to start using it now! Firebug Lite was created to be able to embed a more limited version of the library in non-firefox browsers. Previously, you couldn’t do much with it outside of the console. functions and use a JS command-line. Looks like that’s a thing of the past with the new release. It’s pretty much as functional as the actual Firefox extension, and is well worth checking out:
Firebug Lite 1.2 Released (via Ajaxian)
BgPatterns.com - Cool Background Image Generator
While its generally not my style, I would have loved to have something like this several times in the past. Slick, easy, classy, fun, and actually worthwhile. Check it out:
www.bgpatterns.com
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