While looking for a quick webserver to serve static content I came across a relatively unknown solution: G-WAN (a.k.a. GWAN, a.k.a. Global-WAN). The extensive statistics and graphs on this blog show significant improvements over more well-known solutions such as Nginx and Varnish. In hindsight, I should have trusted my gut instinct on these benchmarks,...
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Plesk on Ubuntu is just a little bit different than Plesk on most other Linux platforms. There is plenty of information on how to do subdomain aliasses on Plesk, but to get it working on Ubuntu you need a bit more effort. So… here’s how to do it;
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Afterdark just got a cousin; Afternoon (pictures here) The Afterdark theme has mutated to become a flexible theme framework, where multiple similarly styled themes could be generated from a single “source code”. The first product of this is the new “Afternoon” theme, a bright and shiney theme with blue tones, for a professional but...
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Just updated the Afterdark jQueryUI “total conversion” theme. Afterdark delivers a complete style for jQueryUI driven sites, changing not only the look of jQueryUI components, but all layout including body and form elements. It is designed for admin backends but can be used for any purpose.
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Take a look at my new colorpicker component for jQuery: jQuery.colorpicker It looks like a proper jQueryUI themed component and feels like a proper PhotoShop colorpicker, so you get the best of both worlds.
Read more →A medium to dark gray jQueryUI theme with limegreen/olivegreen accents. Demo: http://vanderlee.github.com/Afterdark/ Project: https://github.com/vanderlee/Afterdark
Read more →While doing some work in SynthMaker, I was optimizing a bunch of DAP paths. This basically means trying to get a small subset of seemingly random chosen SSE and SSE2 instruction to calculate what I want. As the developers of SynthMaker didn’t bother to implement most of the SSE/SSE2 instruction set (god knows why; reverse...
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The jQuery.shadowtext plugin lets you add interactive, animated CSS3 text-shadow to parts of your webpage. The interaction is that it reacts to the mouse cursor position and casts a shadow at the opposite side of text . Or on the same side, or the other way around, or not a shadow at all. It’s...
Read more →I just ran into an… “interresting” problem with Javascript. Extending an Array prototype and a naïve For…In iteration over an array spells trouble in FireFox. I’ve only seen this issue in FireFox and I suspect it’s a bug. No doubt it’ll soon enough be fixed but in the meantime this post may help you...
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I just did a minor “v1.0.1″ update to jQuery.px; it now includes the non-standard ‘vd’ unit size, which is the hypothenuse of the vw and vd units; 1/100th of the diagonal of the viewport. Seemed like a useful addition to have, even though it’s not in the CSS3 specs and I doubt it’ll ever...
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