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  • February 6, 2009
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    Internet Explorer 6, I’ve got your number

    Don’t you love when all your IE6 preventative measures actually come to fruition? You know, after you’ve spent days and days tweaking CSS and HTML, and you finally decide to risk looking at in IE6. And when you do look at it, it’s identical to your normal browser? Don’t you just love that? Of course, [...]

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  • February 5, 2009

    Menalto Gallery 3 alpha released!

    Looks like they’ve released an alpha of Menalto Gallery! I’m really looking forward to checking this out. It’s supposedly totally rewritten from the ground up!

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  • February 4, 2009
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    Is there a way to improve the wordpress theme layer?

    If you’ve worked with MVC frameworks, then you’ll probably agree that the VC portion of MVC is pretty nice. It really helps keep your presentation code separate from application code. For example:

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  • February 2, 2009
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    Asheville web design, web development, web production services

    If you’re local to Asheville, and you’re exploring the many web design and web development companies around, then I’d recommend you make a good hard think before choosing bewteen the first few that pop up in your Googles. Many of my local competitors offer web design. They offer web development. But I–not you–I know which [...]

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  • February 2, 2009
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    Nannerpuss is the coolest mofo ever!

    These new Denny’s commercials are great! For one, they’re mocking IHOP almost directly. My brother and I can’t even stand being in IHOP anymore; it’s just far too lame. Far too lame. Enter Nannerpuss, an eight-legged banana octopus on my pancakes. What a beautiful thing this is. Watch it on Spike.com! Follow Nannerpuss on Twitter!

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  • February 1, 2009
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    Take a look at the Pods plugin for WordPress

    Drupal provides some great functionality, but its learning curve is pretty steep. Most developers can grasp it pretty quickly, but the end administrators don’t have that luxury. And this can be a real problem. More arguments of using WordPress as a CMS continue to abound, some claiming that it works wonderfully as a CMS and [...]

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  • January 27, 2009
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    FoxyCart + ModXCMS… sounds pretty good.

    Was just browsing over foxy cart again, and I came across a bit of info on integration with ModX. Now, this sounds pretty promising. If this actually works, then we may have finally found a slick ecommerce system that gives the developer actual control… imagine that craziness. I’m very much looking forward to the opportunity [...]

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  • January 14, 2009
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    Take a look at SilverStripe CMS and Sapphire PHP Framework

    I came across (yet another!) open source CMS, SilverStripe. After a run through the CMS features I though I’d give the tutorials a quick shot. Turns out, this CMS is actually really nice! It’s bare bones, but in a way different than most bare bones or lite CMSs. It runs on their own PHP OOP [...]

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  • January 7, 2009
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    Take a look at MODx, a PHP App Framework, Ajax CMS, and SEO CMS

    Alright, a NetTut convinced me to take a look at MODx, a sweet PHP/MySQL content management framework. It’s also an AJAX framework. It’s also a CMS. It sounds as if this framework may have found a nice balance for designers, developers, and editors. So far, I’ve installed and populated a simple sample, within about 10 [...]

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  • January 6, 2009

    Nice roundup of 100 wallpapers for the iPhone

    Smashing Magazine did a nice article rounding up 100 kickass iphone wallpapers. I really like the space and nature selection. And of course, my favorites are on InterfaceLift.

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