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Latest posts
Tales From the Internet: Sublime Text 2
At Nomad over the past couple of weeks we've been discussing code editors. We've all used various editors and IDE's and they all seem to have warts – some more so than others. Lee mentioned Sublime Text 2 which we've all since been trying.
Snippets: Accented Characters
This is a quick and dirty PHP hack which will convert accented characters to their non-accented version (e.g. á to a). It relies on the HTML entity starting with the unaccented character. It's highly volatile and likely to fail as it will convert & and other characters that you may not want converted.
Snippets: Unique Id
A very simple function for creating a unique id in JavaScript.
Tales From the Internet: Quantum Locking and Responsive CSS
This month we have mostly been looking at CSS, with the odd sprinkling of info about Android and quantum locking.
Tales from the Internet: Animated Javascript
Over the past month we've seen video footage of the Cassini mission.
Tales From the Internet: Volcanoes to Time control
A mixed bag of interesting links from the internet this week:
Tales From the Internet: Code and Interfaces
Interesting things we've discovered on the internet this month:
Tales From the Internet: Innovative Thinking
Some innovative thinking behind today's links.
Tales From the Internet: Kinect, Technology and Bears.
A short one this week, as we look to wrap up various projects and head into the weekend.
