Our friends over at Nettuts+ and CodeCanyon launched a developer contest today, where one lucky winner will receive the “Ultimate Web Developers Package.” In total, they’re giving away $41,000 worth of developer prizes—including one-year Raven Solo Accounts to three lucky winners! To enter, you have to build either a premium WordPress plugin or mobile component. …

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Before I discuss how the new Raven site was built, I first have to mention the design. Our Art Director, Jeff Crump, did an amazing job at creating a modern, clean, and minimalist site design. It was an absolute pleasure coding this site. HTML 5 HTML 5 Boilerplate The new site was coded in HTML …

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I recently started using a new service called CrossBrowserTesting, and it’s so incredibly awesome I felt compelled to write a review.  First some background… Browser compatibility is a difficult challenge for all web designers and developers.  The process of debugging HTML, CSS, or Javascript problems that only occur on specific platforms is both tedious and …

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Last week, I gave a talk at BarCamp Nashville on Leveraging Web Service APIs.  Many thanks to the conference organizers who were able to move me to a session later in the day at the last minute because of a funeral that morning.  For anyone who couldn’t make it to the talk, I created a …

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Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and blogs we build use WordPress. Depending on the client and the strategy, we can sometimes build twenty or more WordPress-driven sites. That used to mean …

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It’s been a few weeks since the release of Google’s Chrome, and many people have now had the opportunity to try it and comment on its potential impact on the browser landscape.  Much of the discussion has centered around how Chrome performs, what features it lacks, and how the interface compares to other browsers.  What …

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Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to …

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In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there’s a third viable option for embedding Flash using JavaScript. It’s called FlashReplace and was written by Robert Nyman. The unique feature of FlashReplace …

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One of the best things to come from social networking and the so called Web 2.0 is the Web widget. Web widgets allow users to easily drop JavaScript code into their own website and instantly add content and features. Most Web widgets contain CSS ids and classes that allow the webmaster to alter the look-and-feel …

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Proxy Servers are used for many different reasons. Services like AOL use proxy servers for Internet traffic load balancing, while others use them for a thin layer of privacy. The most common or preferred use of a proxy server is for privacy (aka anonymisation). That’s often achieved through a large network of various servers located …

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