384 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Google Hosted jQuery.
Use Google's hosted version to save bandwidth and decrease page load.
Packer by Dean Edwards.
Take that huge ass Javascript file and compress it!
ProCSSor.
Make that ugly CSS beautiful.
JSON Formatter.
Makes JSON pretty.
YQL Console.
Build Yahoo Query Language for quick JSON or XML from mashup data.
PHP Snippets.
Bunch of useful PHP snippets.
Popuri.us.
Quickly see details, page rank, alexa, etc of any website.
Ad Assault.
Quickly find web sites...
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439 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
DocRaptor is a killer new web service that makes generating BEAUTIFUL PDFs as easy as writing HTML. The raptor also does Excel Documents, however for the purpose of this post I'm going to focus purely on the PDF side of things.
Many many years ago, I started a PDF Book Printing service called PrintFu and needed the ability to generate PDF invoices dynamically that could then be merged with the customers original PDF for the printer. While this was in 2003, I spent a retarded amount of tim...
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462 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Here are 4 more WordPress plugins that I love and use on 8iFY.
Auto SytnaxHighlighter
If you ever include Code Snippets in to your blog posts, then Auto Syntax Highlighter is a must have. This great plugin will automatically format your code into a pretty and colorful format. Currently Auto SyntaxHighlighter supports: AppleScript, ActionScript3, Bash/shell, C#, C++, CSS, Delphi, Diff, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Sass, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic and XML/HTML....
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498 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
LESS was originally a ruby gem for Ruby on Rails that made CSS significantly more dynamic. Now there's been ports in PHP, Javascript, and even .NET. None-the-LESS (pun intended), it's worth checking out! This could change the way you write CSS foreva!
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501 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Microsoft employee Damian Edwards (won't hold that against him!) gives a great 50 minute long coding demo covering the fundamentals of Javascript as it relates to jQuery. Damian covers things like Javascript Functions, Objects, scopes and closures, CSS selectors, events and jQuery animation.
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