LESS – Leaner CSS

Adds lots of useful features for CSS, in fact why wasn’t it like this all along would have been things a lot easier and cleaner. LESS – Leaner CSS.

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Simple Twitter RSS Processing

I required a simple feed from Twitter into www.MindOver-matter.co.uk/news.php. There are numerous examples around but a lot of them are very convoluted. Below is an simple code example. The function could of course be modifed to be generic whereby user info etc would be passed in. <?php function parse_cache_feed($usernames, $limit) { $feed = “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/130211322.rss”; $xml [...]

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IP Location API, database and fraud detection tools

IPInfoDB  provides a number of services that could be useful when developing a website including: Web based IP geolocation lookup IP geolocation API (XML, JSON and CSV format) API that generate IP CIDR by country for iptables or htaccess blocklist E-commerce fraud detection API For example http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=82.27.34.78&output=xml&timezone=false will return the following XML. <response> <ip>82.27.34.78</ip> <status>OK</status> [...]

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Proper testing on older browsers!

There are a number of sites that provide a snapshot picture of a particular page of a website running on various version of browsers. But if you want to test your website thoroughly  SPOON.NET offers a solution. It allows you to run various browsers and versions  from the Spoon web site and other Spoon Servers. [...]

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Hosted Testing of Web Sites

There are other providers of this service but I like Adobe® BrowserLab. It is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them [...]

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Dewsbury Beer Festival

Developed new website for Dewsbury Beer Festival which is on May 20th to 22nd at the Town Hall which is in the centre of the town. For more information - Dewsbury Beer Festival.

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