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CSSpress

So today I launched a little command line application for compressing CSS files.

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This is very depressing!

Who will rid me of this turbulent browser?

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Have you been fireballed?

Daring Fireball the excellent blog by John Gruber occasionally brings sites to their knees in a digg-esk manner if he deems them worthy of a link.

From this day on, the effect will be known as being FIREBALLED. (If this has already been done or has an even more witty name its my bad!)

Update: John already uses it, Doh! Oh well back to the drawing board.

BBC iPlayer on the Mac

Recently the BBC have launched the iPlayer. This is a service which allows people to watch TV programs or listen to radio shows from that last 7 days again on their computer as many times as they like. That is unless they have a Mac.

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Mootools and its documentation

So today I was trying to update my moose56.com homepage and thought I would add some javascript effects using the Mootools library.

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Sending an email with PHP and Ruby

The other day I was trying to code a back end to a simple web form. I wanted the data entered into the form to be emailed back to me. Here I describe two very simple methods to send an email from both PHP and Ruby code.

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Web site development with StaticMatic

StaticMatic is a small framework for producing static web sites. It is built on top of a number of Ruby gems such as Haml and makes it possible to create totally static sites using Ruby.

I have spent a bit of time playing with StaticMatic and thought I would share some of the things I have learnt just in case anyone else has the same questions as I did.

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Double Margin Bug

Don’t you just hate it when you spend hours lovingly crafting a layout in CSSedit/Safari/FireFox to the point of beautiful elegance only to discover that IE turns it into a pile of merde? This happened to me just the other day and even though it was down to a tiny, well known bug it still caused me a little grief. Because of this here is yet another blog post about fixing the double margin bug so others may fix it quicker than I did.

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Apollo: Break out of the browser

On Sunday night Adobe released (launched…) an alpha version of Apollo.

So what, I hear, what the hell is Apollo any how? Well apollo might just change the way you use the internet.

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In the beginning there was PHP then God created Rails

So another blog on the web singing the praises of Rails. Not the most innovative subject, but a personal one non the less.

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