July 17th, 2006 | Published in Tools I Use
New web site for user-contributed stencils for OmniGraffle. (Fits right in with the recent theme of scriptable/extensible applications.)
A great collection for one of my favorite apps.
(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)
July 17th, 2006 | Published in Uncategorized
YouTube | 14th stage 2006 crash
Just in case you haven’t seen yesterday’s crash video enough, it’s available (of course) on YouTube. There are 3-4 versions; this one’s my favorite because it sounds more violent in German.
It does seem worse in german… of which I speak not a lick
(Via Tour de France 2004.)
July 16th, 2006 | Published in PHP
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About PHP:
Greg Szorc has a new entry in his blog titled 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About PHP. In it he shows you 4 things and a rant that you may not have know about PHP.
So have you been coding in a language too long when you come to one of these pages and you go humm, tell me something I don’t know.
(Via Zend Developer Zone.)
July 16th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll
Wishingline Design Studios | Profile - Distractions:
Markdown Syntax Cheatsheet 1.0.3 Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). This is a printable cheat-sheet for Markdown syntax.
(Via Wishingline DS.)
July 14th, 2006 | Published in JavaScript/AJAX
The Carousel component lets you flick left and right through content (images).
You will quickly see that there is a lot of documentation and a real API that allows for many uses:
Static HTML - Carousel content expressed
solely in HTML markup.
DTHML Load - Carousel content loaded via
JavaScript (client side load) displayed horizontally.
DTHML Load (Vertical) - Carousel
content loaded via JavaScript (client side load) displayed horizontally.
Bounded DHTML Load - Loading
Carousel via JavaScript (client side load) with the size constrained.
Ajax Load - Loading Carousel via Ajax (server side load).
Ajax Load - Two Carousels - Loading two Carousels on same page via Ajax (server side load).
Slide Show - Showing a carousel managing one large image at a time.
No Animation - Carousel configured for no animation.
Mod
Anybody know of a similar extension for script.aculo.us
July 12th, 2006 | Published in Uncategorized
You really must listen to Model View Controller if you do any coding in that style
July 12th, 2006 | Published in Code Development, HTML, Tools I Use
Processing Online Credit Card Transactions:
If you’re going to charge money for a product or service, then you’ll probably want to give customers the opportunity to use credit cards on your site. The basic PayPal only route is always available, but how professional is sending customers to PayPal in order to complete a transaction? You, my friend, need a means of processing online payments yourself and are ready to learn about payment gateways, merchant accounts, and safety.
I’ve done some of this already (using authorize.net for one client and paypal for some others, I have to say I am more comfortable with the process for authorize.net…)
(Via Particletree RSS Digest.)
July 12th, 2006 | Published in Education
“Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.” (Via Coudal, which is weird, given that they’re a bunch of illiterates.)
Lightly interesting… 
(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)
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